yearofpub (Year Of Publication) Attribute Description .email comment.
Documentation updated in version 1.9 and 1.9.1.
Description
This attribute provides the official year of publication that the journal issue that included the article was published. It should contain the volume year of the issue in which the article was published, and should match the year included in coverdate. The value must be consistent across all articles within an issue. Please see "Publication Dates in Online Files".
It appears on several lower-level elements that could be extracted from the article, so that they can continue to carry this information after extraction.
In Shared Group
Defined in shared attribute group: "Year of Publication Attributes"
Specification
This attribute is not required. It has text content.
DTD Definition
The DTD contains the following attribute definition (note that embedded links are to definitions within the DTD page of this guide):
                yearofpub                CDATA  #IMPLIED 
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