<season>

Appears in

Frequency

<element-citation>

Zero or one time

<pub-date>

Zero or one time

This element can occur in <pub-date> to identify a month range (see Note below), and in <element-citation> to identify the season in a bibliographic reference.

As a pattern Érudit PS have a list of valid values for seasons. These values are not mandatory in this version of Érudit PS, but have in mind to follow these best practices to be under conformit with the next versions of Érudit PS.

List of known seasons:

value

spring

summer

autumn

winter

January

Februrary

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

1st quarter

2nd quarter

3rd quarter

4th quarter

1st semester

2nd semester

Note

An hyphen must be used to combine more than one season, ex: may-june, spring-summer, etc.

Examples:

Example of <season> as a season:

...
<back>
    ...
    <ref-list>
        <ref>
            ...
            <season>Autumn</season>
            ...
        </ref>
    </ref-list>
    ...
</back>

Example of <season> as a month range:

...
<front>
    ...
    <article-meta>
        ...
        <pub-date pub-type="epub">
            <season>Nov-Dec</season>
            <year>2013</year>
        </pub-date>
        ...
    </article-meta>
    ...
</front>
...

Example of <season> as a season range:

...
<front>
    ...
    <article-meta>
        ...
        <pub-date pub-type="epub">
            <season>spring-summer</season>
            <year>2013</year>
        </pub-date>
        ...
    </article-meta>
    ...
</front>
...