<season>

Season

Season of publication, such as “Spring”, “Third Quarter”, etc.

Remarks

For a detailed discussion on the use of <season>, see Dates in Citations.

This element is used in both metadata and inside a bibliographic reference (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>).

Attribute

content-type Type of Content

Related Elements

Within citations (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>), this element is used to name the date of publication. The elements <year>, <date>, <day>, <month>, and <season> may all be used to describe the date a cited resource was published. Other dates inside a citation, such as a copyright date, the date on which the author accessed the resource, or a withdrawal date, should be tagged using <date-in-citation> with the @content-type attribute used to name the type of date (copyright, access-date, time-stamp, etc.).

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  season       (#PCDATA)                                    >

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters

This element may be contained in:

<date>, <date-in-citation>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <pub-date>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <string-date>

Example 1

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):

...
<ref>
<element-citation>
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name><surname>Shneiderman</surname>
<given-names>B.</given-names></name>
</person-group>
<article-title>Designing information-abundant web
sites: issues and recommendations</article-title>
<source>Web Developers' Journal</source>
<volume>47</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<issue-title>World Wide Web Usability</issue-title>
<fpage>100</fpage>
<lpage>120</lpage>
<page-range>100-101, 105, 107-120</page-range>
<season>Summer</season>
<year>1997</year>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...

Example 2

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):

...
<ref>
<mixed-citation>
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<string-name><surname>Shneiderman</surname>
<given-names>B.</given-names></string-name>
</person-group>.
<article-title>Designing information-abundant web 
sites: issues and recommendations</article-title>.
<source>Web Developers' Journal</source>
<year>1997</year> <season>Summer</season>;
<volume>47</volume>(<issue>1</issue>)
<issue-title>World Wide Web Usability</issue-title>:
<page-range>100&ndash;101, 105, 107&ndash;120</page-range>.
<fpage>100</fpage>
<lpage>120</lpage>  
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...

Module

common3.ent