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RSN · Feb 17, 2018

Maybe someone here could help me with this matter: what counts as publication date for a work that describes a new species when the year in the work and in the volume are different (for example, 1887 and 1888, respectively)?

Specifically in a case when you don't know if the author, who received the copies in the previous year to the volume publication, have distributed or not his work.

Paul Clapham · Feb 18, 2018

I'm not sure if I'm answering your question, but:

It's Article 21, Determination of Date, which is relevant here. And Article 21.5, Dates of work issued in parts, looks to me to be what your question is about. It says

If parts of a work were published on different days, the date of publication of each part is to be separately determined.

So if the work in question is part of a volume (containing many works) then it's the publication date of the work, not the publication date of the volume.

Murray Lord · Feb 18, 2018

I think you go off the date of publication of the part. The Code contains the following:

21.5. Dates of work issued in parts. If parts of a work were published on different days, the date of publication of each part is to be separately determined.

21.6. Range of dates. If the date of publication specified in a work is a range of dates, the work is to be dated from the final day of the range; however, if evidence demonstrates that the date so determined is incorrect or that the work was issued in parts, the date or dates of publication are to be determined according to the relevant provisions of Articles 21.3-21.5

But that assumes it was a part and not a preprint, where it seems evidence of actual distribution is required:

21.8. Advance distribution of separates and preprints. Advance distribution of separates or preprints affects date of publication as specified by the following criteria:

21.8.1. Before 2000, an author who distributed separates in advance of the specified date of publication of the work in which the material was published thereby advanced the date of publication.

There is some discussion of these issues in the book Priority! Go to http://www.avespress.com/books/priority/priority-preview/ and look at the preview of pp. 46-47.

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