Article History Dates

The <history> element is the container element for recording the article's received, revised and accepted dates. Each date should be captured in a <date> element using a specific type attribute:

Received date: "received"
Revised date: "revised"
Accepted date: "accepted"
Retracted date: "retracted" (this option is rarely needed)

The date should be tagged in the iso-8601-date attribute in YYYY-MM-DD format. For example:

<history>
    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2012-04-18"/>
    <date date-type="revised" iso-8601-date="2012-04-29"/>
    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2012-05-20"/>
</history>

Special Cases

The article history dates should normally be rendered from the structured date elements, but in some cases non-standard text may need to appear in addition to these dates. The history dates should be captured in structured date elements as above, and the text should be captured within the <history> element. For example:

<history>
    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2012-04-18"/>
    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2012-04-29"/>
    Received 18 April 2012; revised manuscript accepted 29 April 2012 as a short communication.
</history>