Date of this Version is a date field used to indicate when the work was published in a journal or other medium.
The minimum required piece of information is the year. If you are submitting a work which may have a more specific date, use the following guidelines:
- Journal Article
- If the journal has a month/day/year, use that.
- If the journal has month, use the first day of month.
- If the journal has year, use Jan. 1.
- If the journal has a season (i.e., Spring), use Spring 2016.
- Conference Paper
- Use day month year of first day of conference, if available.
- Where no other date info is available
- Check if there is a date on the document itself somewhere.
- If uploading a Word document, use file creation date.
- If nothing else available, use today’s date.
