From: Donald Moses

> I'm wondering if the MODS community has a best practice for recording

> the seasonal dates that often appear in journal publications eg. Winter

> 2013 ?

See http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/pre-submission.html

5.2.5 Season

to indicate "Winter 2013":

<dateIssued encoding="edtf">2013-24</dateIssued>  

--Ray