Box 116Both a date of update and a date of revision

Various words are used to show that the content of a contribution has changed. Among them are: updated, modified, revised, reviewed.

  • Use the wording supplied in the contribution
  • Give all words expressing update/revision with the dates provided, in ascending date order
  • Enter dates in the format year month day
  • Separate words with their dates by a semicolon and a space
    • updated 2006 May; modified 2006 Dec;
    • revised 2005 Dec 5; updated 2007 Mar 5;
  • Add the date of citation and put all date information in square brackets
  • End date information with a period placed outside the closing bracket
    Example:
    • Bunyavejchevin S, Phupong V. Laparoscopic surgery for presumed benign ovarian tumor during pregnancy. 2006 Oct 18 [amended 2007 Jun 14; cited 2007 Feb 20]. In: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews [Internet]. Hoboken (NJ): John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. c1999 -   . 129K. Available from: http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD005459/pdf_fs.html Record No.: CD005459.

From: Chapter 24, Databases/Retrieval Systems/Datasets on the Internet

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Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers [Internet]. 2nd edition.
Patrias K, author; Wendling D, editor.
Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007-.
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