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date
A date value. A version of the date which can be automatically processed should be specified in the date attribute.
The date element for a journal article MUST specify the month of publication in its date attribute. The year and month must be separated by a hyphen
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<date date="2003-06">June 2003</date>
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When there are two months, the first month ONLY should be included in the date attribute:
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<date date="2003-06">June/July 2003</date>
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When seasons are specified instead of months, the month attribute should be specified as follows:
| Season | Attribute value |
|---|
| Spring | 03 |
| Summer | 06 |
| Autumn/Fall | 09 |
| Winter | 12 |
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<date date="2003-06">Summer 2003</date>
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See the attributes page for important details on how dates should be captured.
View date's attributes
View date's content model
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- accent -- a structure denoting a character and and accent mark (%formatting;)
- alternativeformat -- a text string in an alternative format (%formatting;)
- b -- bold text (%formatting;)
- br -- line break (%formatting;)
- externallink -- a link out of a document
- fill -- fill with multiple characters
- font -- a change of font (%formatting;)
- highlight -- highlighted text (%formatting;)
- i -- italic text (%formatting;)
- link -- a link to another part of a document e.g. to a figure, affiliation or heading ID value
- number -- text denoting the number of a reference, formula, figure legend, list, footnote, affiliation or similar labels (%formatting;)
- openface -- denotes text in an openface font (%formatting;)
- overline -- denotes a line over text (%formatting;)
- roman -- text in a roman font (%formatting;)
- sansserif -- text in a sans serif font (%formatting;)
- scriptface -- text in a script font (%formatting;)
- slanted -- text in a slanted font (%formatting;)
- smallcapitals -- text in small capitals (%formatting;)
- softbr -- a soft line break (%formatting;)
- span -- a span of text (%formatting;)
- strike -- strikethrough text (%formatting;)
- sub -- subscript text (%formatting;)
- sup -- superscript (%formatting;)
- symbol -- used in entity lists for BSL XSL purposes (%formatting;)
- tt -- typewriter/monospaced font (%formatting;)
- u -- underline (%formatting;)
- uu -- double-underline (%formatting;)
- x -- punctuation or significant white space (%formatting;)
- accolade -- a brace spanning table rows
- answer -- the answer in a question and answer section ('questiongroup')
- bindinggroup -- BPS field
- bookdetails -- book details
- contentinfo -- general information about the content
- contents -- the contents of a book (BPS) or a table of contents in a document e.g. of headings
- definition -- the definition of a term in a definitionpair
- documentinfo -- general information about a document
- entry -- an entry in a table row
- event -- an event e.g. in a list of events
- feedback -- feedback relating to an answer in an answergroup
- heading -- a heading in a document section
- hint -- a hint associated with a question
- imprint -- the publisher's imprint associated with a book (BPS)
- keyword -- a keyword in a keyword group or index entry
- layeredtext -- text in a legend associated with a particular image part
- miscellaneoustext -- text for which a more suitable tag isn't available in an author's details or a reference etc.
- p -- a paragraph
- question -- a question in a question group
- reference -- a reference cited in an article
- term -- part of a definition pair
- title -- the title of a document, book or journal etc.
- tocentry -- an entry in a table of contents
Created: Tue Dec 23 14:02:01 2003