Season of publication, such as “Spring”, “Third Quarter”, etc.
This element is used in both article metadata and inside a bibliographic reference (<citation> or <nlm-citation>).
For extensive examples of formatted <nlm-citation>s including use of <season>s in <nlm-citation>s, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations. To see tagged versions of these examples, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations - XML Tagged.
Conversion Note: This is a rarely used element; a season should only be tagged if no other date is available.
<!ELEMENT season (#PCDATA) >
Text, numbers, or special characters
<citation> Citation; <date> Date; <nlm-citation> NLM Citation Model; <product> Product Information; <pub-date> Publication Date; <related-article> Related Article Information
In article metadata:
...
<article-meta>
...
<title-group>
<article-title>Raptor Science</article-title>
<subtitle>Capturing Cosmological “Winks”</subtitle>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib>
<name><surname>Fishbone</surname>
<given-names>Brian</given-names></name>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="epub-ppub">
<season>Fall</season>
<year>2003</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>...</volume>
<fpage>35</fpage>
...
</article-meta>
...
In a NLM-style bibliographic citation:
...
<ref>
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<person-group>
<name>
<surname>Fabdetti</surname>
<given-names>DV</given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname>Golsmeier</surname>
<given-names>J</given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title>Social workers as culture mediators in health
care settings</article-title>
<source>Health Soc Work</source>
<year>1988</year>
<season>Summer</season>
<volume>13</volume>
<issue>3</issue>
<fpage>171</fpage>
<lpage>179</lpage>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
...
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