Oxford University Press Text Capture Instructions

 

bibItem date

Set the date attribute to a four digit year or other valid ISO 8601 date. For references that have not yet been published set the attribute to In press or Forthcoming .

ref_pubdateYear Publication year
//bibItem/@date
  • In press
  • Forthcoming

Where these values are used the same text must appear within the bibItem element.

Where a date is supplied as a range capture the first date in the date attribute and the second date in the dateEnd attribute.

Date unspecified because it is In press


<bibItem class="journalArticle" author="Blanckenhorn, W.U." date="In press" journalName="Ethology" title="Behavioral causes and consequences of sexual size dimorphism">
Blanckenhorn, W.U. Behavioral causes and consequences of sexual size dimorphism.<i>Ethology</i>. In press. </bibItem>

Date including month

The text of the reference specifies the month as April 1998, so the date attribute has value 1998-04.


<bibItem id="oso-9780199333547-chapter-4-bibItem-33" class="journalArticle" author="Kerr, N.W." title="Dental Pain and Suffering Prior To the Advent of Modern Dentistry" journalName="British Dental Journal" date="1998-04" vol="184" journalIssue="8" page="397" pageLast="399">
<nameGrp id="oso-9780199333547-chapter-4-nameGrp-32" foreNames="N.W." mainName="Kerr" role="author">N.W. Kerr</nameGrp>, “Dental Pain and Suffering Prior To the Advent of
Modern Dentistry,” British Dental Journal 184, no. 8 (April 1998): 397–399. </bibItem>
Release ID:
20261202
ID:
OUP_Bibliographic_Reference_TCI_topic_4_6
Author:
dunnm
Last changed:
Wed, 04 Jun 2025
Modified by:
buckmasm
Revision#:
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