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 16:27:05 +0000
Thanks Jeff, that's good to know. If we were using mixed-citation (as
Bruce suggested), then leaving the suffix outside of <year> would make
sense, but as we're trying to use element-citation for everything,
using @iso-8601-date does seem like an appropriate solution.

Alf

On 25 February 2013 15:56, Beck, Jeff (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]
<beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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