Names one of the months of the year
For a detailed discussion on the use of <month>, see Dates in Citations.
Used within both book and book component metadata and citations, this element may contain the textual name of a month (“December”), a month-name abbreviation (“Dec”), or a numeric month (“12”). Numeric months are best practice for archives who wish to regularize their data.
Conversion Note: For ease in comparisons and searching, many archives prefer that months be converted to numeric values:
<!ELEMENT month (#PCDATA) >
Text, numbers, or special characters
<date>, <date-in-citation>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <pub-date>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <string-date>
In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="web">
<source>Fact sheet: AIDS information resources</source>
<comment>[Internet]</comment>
<publisher-loc>Bethesda (MD)</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>National Library of Medicine
(US)</publisher-name>
<year>2003</year>
<month>May</month>
<day>2</day>
<date-in-citation content-type="updated">updated 2005 Jul 14</date-in-citation>
<date-in-citation content-type="access-date">cited 2006 Nov 15</date-in-citation>
<size units="screen">[about 3 screens]</size>
<comment>Available from:
<uri>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/aidsinfs.html</uri>
</comment>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="web">
<source>Fact sheet: AIDS information resources</source>
[Internet]. <publisher-loc>Bethesda
(MD)</publisher-loc>: <publisher-name>National
Library of Medicine (US)</publisher-name>;
<year>2003</year> <month>May</month> <day>2</day>
[updated <date-in-citation content-type="updated">2005 Jul 14
</date-in-citation>; cited <date-in-citation
content-type="access-date">2006 Nov 15</date-in-citation>].
<size units="screen">[about 3 screens]</size>.
Available from:
<uri>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/aidsinfs.html</uri>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
... <book-part-meta> <title-group> <title>GenBank: The Nucleotide Sequence Database</title> </title-group> <contrib-group>...</contrib-group> <history> <date date-type="created"> <day>09</day><month>10</month><year>2002</year> </date> <date date-type="updated"> <day>27</day><month>07</month><year>2004</year> </date> </history> <alternate-form xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" alternate-form-type="pdf" xlink:href="ch1d1"/> <abstract> <p>The GenBank sequence database is an annotated collection of all publicly available nucleotide sequences and their protein translations. This database is produced ...</p> </abstract> </book-part-meta> ...
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