Re: [jats-list] citation "year" with suffix

[Bruce Rosenblum <bruce@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alf,

We typically use mixed-citation and place the letter outside the year 
element, so we can avoid the need to strip any non-numeric text 
before running PubMed or CrossRef lookups.

Best regards,

Bruce

At 10:56 AM 2/25/2013, Beck, Jeff (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] wrote:
> Hi Alf,
>
> This looks like appropriate markup for the citation to me. The
> @iso-8601-date attribute was intended across the elements it's used on to
> be a processable date format. It is certainly most useful on the
> date-level elements, but this is a great example of why it is needed on
> <year>.
>
> Whether your processors use the attribute or just strip the non-numeric
> characters from <year> to do any citation lookups (like everyone has had
> to do until this attribute was added) will be up to you.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On 2/25/13 10:28 AM, "Alf Eaton" <eaton.alf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >When marking up reference lists that use "Author, Year" format for
> >inline citations - so the year has an alphanumeric suffix if more than
> >one cited article has the same author surname and year - would this be
> >appropriate markup for the citation?:
> >
> >====
> ><ref id="ref-2">
> >    <element-citation publication-type="journal">
> >        <person-group person-group-type="author">
> >            <name>
> >                <surname>Wedel</surname>
> >                <given-names>MJ</given-names>
> >            </name>
> >        </person-group>
> >        <article-title>What pneumaticity tells us about
> >prosauropods</article-title>
> >        <volume>1</volume>
> >        <year iso-8601-date="2007">2007b</year>
> >        <fpage>1</fpage>
> >    </element-citation>
> ></ref>
> >====
> >
> >There are two examples in
> >http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/tag-library/1.0/?elem=year that use
> >@iso-8601-date on <year>, but they both just repeat the information in
> >the text content; I'm assuming this attribute was intended for cases
> >where the text contains something other than the 4-digit year?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Alf

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