<date> Date (in a citation)

Within a citation (such as <mixed-citation> or <related-object>), this element names the publication date of the cited source. All other dates within a citation should be tagged as <date-in-citation>.

Usage/Remarks

The date model is an element-only model, and each date contains elements such as <day>, <month>, and <year>, which by Best Practice should always be numeric values.
Attributes

Base Attributes

Models and Context
May be contained in
Description
The following, in order:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  date         %date-model;                                 >
Expanded Content Model

(((day?, month?) | season)?, year, era?)

Tagged Sample

Publication date in citation

...
<ref>
 <label>...</label>
 <mixed-citation publication-type="journal"
  ><person-group
   ><string-name><surname>Chandler</surname>, 
    <given-names>Adam</given-names></string-name>, 
   <string-name><given-names>Glen</given-names> 
    <surname>Wiley</surname></string-name>, and 
   <string-name><given-names>Jim</given-names> 
    <surname>LeBlanc</surname></string-name></person-group>. 
  &ldquo;<article-title>Towards Transparent and Scalable OpenURL 
   Quality Metrics</article-title>.&rdquo; 
  <source>D-Lib Magazine</source>, 
  <date iso-8601-date="2011-03">
   <month>March/April</month>
   <year>2011</year>
  </date>, 
  <volume>17</volume>(<issue>3/4</issue>). doi: 
  <pub-id pub-id-type="doi" 
    xlink:href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/march2011-chandler"
  >http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/march2011-chandler</pub-id>. Available at: 
  <ext-link 
    xlink:href="http://dlib.org/dlib/march11/chandler/03chandler.html"
  >http://dlib.org/dlib/march11/chandler/03chandler.html</ext-link
 ></mixed-citation>
</ref>
...