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

Subject: Re: [jats-list] citation "year" with suffix
From: Alf Eaton <eaton.alf@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:22:14 +0000
Hi Mike,

That's also what I thought at first, but is there a more appropriate
element to mark up the year + suffix (which is what needs to be
displayed in the reference list)? Also, in that case, what is the
"iso-8601-date" attribute on <year> meant for?

Alf

On 25 February 2013 15:49, Mike Eden <meden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Alf,
> Surely the "b" shouldn't be in the <year> element as it is not part of the
> year, it is purely a designation to define the difference between 2
> citations of the same author within "this" document .  If the citation is
> taken in isolation then the b is not needed.  It is not an intrinsic part
> of that papers details.
>
>
> Mike Eden
>
>
>
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> From:   Alf Eaton <eaton.alf@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     jats-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Date:   25/02/2013 15:29
> Subject:        [jats-list] citation "year" with suffix
>
>
>
> 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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