Monthly publication examples

For 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 (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:

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:

Publication Cycle

Property

Value

Notes

Property

Value

Notes

Cycle Length: Time Unit

Month

Together these properties indicate that there is one issue per one month.

Cycle Length: Number of months

1

No. of issues published per cycle

1

Days of publication, per cycle: Day format

Day (1-31)

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 Day (Mon-Sun), Week (1-4) for this property

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

Property

Value

Notes

Label style

Chronology

 

Chronology format

Chronology Month

This is used because the issues are labelled with a month name and year as well as enumeration

Locale

English

If a different language is used for the month name (or weekday name) this can be specified here

Month format

October

This example uses the full month name - use Oct for abbreviate month names and 10 for numeric months

Year format

2023

This example uses the full year. A two digit year format 23 can also be selected

Label 2

Property

Value

Notes

Property

Value

Notes

Label style

Enumeration

 

Enumeration format

Enumeration Numeric

 

Level 1: No of units

1

Level one reflects the volume, one per year

Level 1: Format

Number (1, 2, 3)

Other options available are Ordinal (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and Roman numerals (I, II, III)

Level 1: Sequence

Continuous

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

12

This level represents the issue number and there are 12 issues per volume (Level 1)

Level 2: Format

Number (1, 2, 3)

Other options available are Ordinal (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and Roman numerals (I, II, III)

Level 2: Sequence

Reset

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}})