The date(s) on which the conference was held
For a detailed discussion on the use of <conf-date>, see Conferences in Citations.
Conversion Note: Conference dates in journal headers are traditionally stored in one of two forms: as a single date (“May 1906”), or as the first day and last day of the conference. Either form could be stored in this element. The dates that come initially from separate first and last elements should be combined; for example, the separate dates:
<conf-start>August 4, 2002</conf-start> <conf-end>August 9, 2002</conf-end>
should be merged into a single conference date to become:
<conf-date>August 4, 2002 - August 9, 2002</conf-date>
The element <conf-date> may be used in bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).
<!ELEMENT conf-date (#PCDATA %conf-date-elements;)* >
(#PCDATA)*
Text, numbers, or special characters, zero or more
<conference>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>
In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="paper">
<name><surname>Thabet</surname>
<given-names>A</given-names></name>
<article-title>Clinical value of two serial pulmonary
embolism-protocol CT studies performed within ten
days</article-title>
<conf-name>Annual Scientific Meeting and Postgraduate
Course of the American Society of Emergency
Radiology</conf-name>
<conf-date>2006 Sep 27-30</conf-date>
<conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="paper">
<string-name><surname>Thabet</surname>,
<given-names>A</given-names></string-name>.
<article-title>Clinical value of two serial pulmonary
embolism-protocol CT studies performed within ten
days</article-title>. <conf-name>Annual Scientific
Meeting and Postgraduate Course of the American Society
of Emergency Radiology</conf-name>; <conf-date>2006 Sep
27-30</conf-date>; <conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
...
<article-meta>
...
<abstract>...</abstract>
<conference>
<conf-date>1999</conf-date>
<conf-name>The 27th annual ACM SI/GUCCS
conference</conf-name>
<conf-acronym>SIGUCCS</conf-acronym>
<conf-num>27</conf-num>
<conf-loc>Denver, Colorado, United States</conf-loc>
<conf-sponsor>ACM, Assoc. for Computing
Machinery</conf-sponsor>
<conf-theme>User services conference for
university and college computing service
organizations</conf-theme>
</conference>
<counts>
<fig-count count="5"/>
<table-count count="3"/>
<equation-count count="10"/>
<ref-count count="26"/>
<page-count count="6"/>
<word-count count="2847"/>
</counts>
</article-meta>
...
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