<month>

Appears in

Frequency

<date>

Zero or one time

<element-citation>

Zero or one time

<product>

Zero or one time

<pub-date>

Zero or one time

Identifies the month in references or in the front metadata and can represent:

  • the month of publication of a scientific journal;

  • the month a report is produced;

  • the publication month of an article, ver <pub-date> or of a product, see <product> when used in <front>.

The allowed values are whole numbers of up to two digits, between 1 and 12 inclusive.

Month ranges, for example, Jan - mar should be identifed in season <season>.

Examples:

Example of <month> in <pub-date>:

...
<pub-date pub-type="epub-ppub">
     <day>01</day>
     <month>06</month>
     <year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
...

Example of <month> in <date> of <history>:

...
<history>
  <date date-type="received">
    <day>20</day>
    <month>10</month>
    <year>2014</year>
  </date>
</history>
...

Example of <month> in <element-citation>:

...
<element-citation publication-type="book">
     <person-group person-group-type="author">
          <collab>American Occupational Therapy Association, Ad Hoc Committee on Occupational Therapy Manpower</collab>
     </person-group>
     <source>Occupational therapy manpower: a plan for progress</source>
     <publisher-loc>Rockville (MD)</publisher-loc>
     <publisher-name>The Association</publisher-name>
     <year>1985</year>
     <month>4</month>
     <size units="page">84 p</size>
</element-citation>
...