For a monthly publication, such as Nature Medicine, which has monthly publications which have volume (one per year, continuously increasing) and issue numbers (going from 1-12 in each volume) an example publication pattern might be setup as follows (screen shots first, followed by a textual description of each property and value):this pattern is based on the publication pattern for Nature Medicine / ISSN 1078-8956)
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This would result in a set of issues being predicted for 2024 as follows:
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The publication American Fruit Grower / ISSN 0002-8568 is also a monthly publication but with slightly different issue labelling. The publication cycle and enumeration information would be exactly the same as Nature Medicine above, but the template would differ very slightly:
This would result once again in 12 publications on the first of each month, but the Display summary labelling would be different as a result of the different template:
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Publication Cycle
Property | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Cycle Length: Time Unit |
| Together these properties indicate that there is one issue per one month. |
Cycle Length: Number of months |
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No. of issues published per cycle |
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Days of publication, per cycle: Day format |
| This means you will specify the publication day each month by a number 1-31. Be aware that using “31” will mean that no issues will be predicted for months with fewer than 31 days If the publication follows a pattern of being published on a specific weekday (e.g. first Monday of the month) then you would need to choose |
Issue 1: Day | 1 | This indicates that the issue will be published on the 1st of the month. The prompts here would be different if you had specified a different option in the “Days of publication, per cycle: Day format” property |
Omission rules
n/a
Combination rules
n/a
Labelling
Label 1
Property | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Label style |
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Chronology format |
| This is used because the issues are labelled with a month name and year as well as enumeration |
Locale |
| If a different language is used for the month name (or weekday name) this can be specified here |
Month format |
| This example uses the full month name - use |
Year format |
| This example uses the full year. A two digit year format |
Label 2
Property | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Label style |
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Enumeration format |
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Level 1: No of units |
| Level one reflects the volume, one per year |
Level 1: Format |
| Other options available are |
Level 1: Sequence |
| The volume number keeps going up |
Level 1: Internal note | This is a note field which can optionally be used to annotate the enumeration (e.g. a reminder this is the volume number) | |
Level 2: No of units |
| This level represents the issue number and there are 12 issues per volume (Level 1) |
Level 2: Format |
| Other options available are |
Level 2: Sequence |
| In this case the issue number resets with each volume - i.e. 1-12 each year/volume. |
Level 2: Internal note | This is a note field which can optionally be used to annotate the enumeration (e.g. a reminder this is the issue number) |
Templates
Template example 1 (Nature Medicine):
{{chronology1.month}} {{chronology1.year}} Vol. {{enumeration1.level1}} No. {{enumeration1.level2}}
Template 2 (American Fruit Grower):
v. {{enumeration1.level1}} no. {{enumeration1.level2} ({{chronology1.year}} {{chronology1.month}})