Myriatrix biblio module has a field for capturing precise publication dates of articles. When a new bibliographic entry is being created and the "Publication Type" selected is "Journal Article", a field "Date Published" is shown in the tab "Publication". That field allows entering a date in the format "MM/YYYY" and "DD/MM/YYYY".
When dating old articles, multiple situations can occur. Sometimes the year needs correction, sometimes the specific month and day are "known" but not printed on the article's pages.

In general, for old works, we may have:

1. A work issued in parts, each with its own date, and/or
2. An advanced publication date, a date in which a work was printed and distributed in sufficient copies as to be considered published, and/or
3. A bound volume or bound issue publication date, true to the date printed on the volume or issue, and/or
4. A bound volume or bound issue publication date, different from the date printed on the volume or issue.

There are several resources for dating articles, books and other publications. The aim of this wiki is to keep a running list of those resources. It will be of help to Myriatrix users wishing to populate the field "Date Published" with correct and precise information. General guidance on dating works can be found in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999). Article 3 rules over the publication date of two works, Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, 10th Edition and Clerck's Aranei Svecici, which is arbitrarily set to 1 January 1758. Article 21 rules over and offers Recommendations on determination of date and range of dates. Article 22 rules over and offers Recommendations on citation of date.

Dating recent articles by choosing between their electronic early view, their electronic final version, or the date of the printed version can also be a challenge.

For new works, but especially for works that contain no new names or nomenclatural acts, we may have:

1. An online "early view" publication date, and/or
2. An online bound volume or bound issue publication date, and/or
3. A printed publication date, true to the date printed on the volume or issue, and/or
4. A printed publication date, different from the date printed on the volume or issue.

The e-dating challenge became routine for nomenclatural works after the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature decided to allow electronic-only publication for nomenclatural purposes in 2012 (ICZN, 2012).

For new works containing new names or nomenclatural acts in Zoology, we may have:

1. An online publication date, and correct ZooBank registration, and/or
2. An online publication date, and incorrect or no ZooBank registration, and/or
3. A printed publication date, true to the date printed on the volume or issue, and/or
4. A printed publication date, different from the date printed on the volume or issue.

Besides the Code Amendment itself, guidance on what constitutes an e-publication for nomenclatural purposes can be found in Krell (2013) and in Cranston et al. (2015).

References:
Cranston, P.S., Krell, F.-T., Walker, K. and Hewes, D. (2015): Wiley's Early View constitutes valid publication for date-sensitive nomenclature. Systematic Entomology, 40: 2-4. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12119
ICZN (1999): International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4th Edition. The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp. https://www.iczn.org/the-code/the-code-online/
ICZN (2012): Amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication. ZooKeys, 219: 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.219.3944 Also published in Zootaxa.
Krell, F.-T. (2013): Open-access journals are now open for discoveries of new plants and animals. European Science Editing, 39 (1): 11-12. http://europeanscienceediting.org.uk/articles/open-access-journals-are-now-open-for-discoveries-of-new-plants-and-animals/

Last updated: 23.iv.2023

List of resources:

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Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien: Bauernfeind & Kourgli (2013) showed that the Annalen "were at least sometimes issued as dated preprints and that the evidence available to establish the correct date of publication must be examined carefully. Examples are provided from the 1930s. No full study of the problem is known." See: Bauernfeind, E. & A. Kourgli (2013): Dating of papers published in the "Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien", Austria, vols. 33/1919 – vol. 83/1979. Zoological Bibliography, 2 (4): 143–150. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54037893

For additional (but summarized) information on the publication series of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, see: Gaal, S. & E. Vitek (1998): Die Publikationsreihen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 100B: 11–14. http://verlag.nhm-wien.ac.at/pdfs/100B_011014_Gaal.pdf

Annales de la Société Entomologique de France: Some exact publication dates can be found in the reports of the society meetings, published in the Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. See example for the Annales 67, fascicle 3 in the Bulletin for 1898, p. 361, at BHL. Additional dating resources for the Annales, compiled by Neal Evenhuis, can be found here.

Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Exact publication dates for the Annals and related journals are recorded in: Evenhuis, N. L. (2003): Publication and dating of the journals forming the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and the Journal of Natural History. Zootaxa, 385: 1–68. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.385.1.1

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: The 16-page signatures are dated down to month at the bottom of the first page of the signature. See for example volume 9, signature 1, which is dated as published in October 1895 (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35260543).

Annals of the Transvaal Museum - Mededelingen van het Transvaal Museum: Exact publication dates for the Annals parts can be found on the cover page of each part. See example for volume 7, part 4 at BHL.

Arbeiten über morphologische und taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem: Exact publication dates are printed on the contents page of every issue. Example for volume 5, number 1 at the Entomologische Bibliothek - SDEI.

Arbeiten über physiologische und angewandte Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem: Exact publication dates are printed on the contents page of every issue. Example for volume 9, number 2 at the Entomologische Bibliothek - SDEI.

Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A: The issues are dated down to month on the cover page. See cover page of volume 80, issue 4, published in June 1914, at the BHL (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46057672).

Arthropoda Selecta: Exact publication dates of Arthropoda Selecta issues can be found at https://kmkjournals.com/journals/AS/AS_Exact_Publ_Dates See also: Mikhailov K.G. & S. I. Golovatch (2020): The exact publication date in Arthropoda Selecta — what does this mean? Arthropoda Selecta, 29 (1): 151–153. https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.29.1.14

Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift: Dates for each issue within a volume are given on the title page of the volume. See dates for issues in volume 38 at BHL. The date appearing on top of the first page of an article is not the publication date but the year to which each volume corresponds. Volume 38, issue 3 will have “1893” on the articles (e.g., page 267) but it was published in January 1894.

Biologia Centrali-Americana: Publication dates (month, year) for BCA parts (including pagination and plates) can be found in: Lyal, C. H. C. (2011): The dating of the Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoological Bibliography or Opera Zoologica, 1 (2): 67–100. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54040742
For remarks on "Volume 14. Chilopoda and Diplopoda", see Lyal (2011: 77) and for the publication dates see Lyal (2011: 79, table 14).
"Volume 14. Chilopoda and Diplopoda. Pocock, R. I., 1895-1910, pp. i + 1-217, pls. i-xv. Published in 9 Parts, as set out in Table 14. Part CCVII included the unnumbered Title page. While the whole volume was published under the title 'Chilopoda and Diplopoda', the text in Parts CXXVI-CXXVII was published under the title 'Chilopoda', and in Parts CLXXX-CCVII under the title 'Diplopoda'."

Biologia Serbica: As of 2020, articles in the online edition containing new names were not regularly registered in ZooBank. Therefore works do not become available for the purposes of Zoological Nomenclature from the online publication date of an article, but from the printed edition, which bears its own publication date. For example, a Diplopoda article (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4147289) in volume 42, number 1 bears the online date of 27 October 2020, but the printed number 42 (1) bears the date November 2020.

Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse: Some fascicles bear exact publication dates. For example, volume 106, fascicles 3 and 4 bear the exact date of publication “30 Janvier 1971” on the top right corner of the cover page, and also on page 473. Some recent volumes bear no exact publication date, and the printing of a "volume for year" date has caused confusion in dating scientific names. The "volume for year" date should be interpreted as "year + 1" for dating purposes. For volume 155 (2019), Monsieur Michel Bilotte, le Président de la Société d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse, kindly communicated that "The legal filing of this bulletin is the second quarter of 2020. It was sent for registration to Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) on 1 July 2020 with acknowledgement on 3 August 2020. For Volume 156 in preparation, the date of acceptance of the texts will appear on each article." The assumed publication date for volume 155 (2019) in Myriatrix is 01/07/2020. Authors dealing with taxa published by Jean-Paul Mauriès in recent bulletins should take notice of this dating confusion.

Bulletin de la Société Philomathique a ses Correspondans: Handwritten in eighteen copies up to number 15 (September 1792); printed from numbers 16/17 (October/November 1792). An abridged edition was printed in 1802 (119 p. + pl.); it constitutes the first part of t. I of the "Bulletin des sciences, par la Société philomathique de Paris" (see https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb32724815g). The handwritten copies do not constitute published work for the purposes of zoological nomenclature, as they are excluded by Article 8.4 of the Code. To be published, a work produced before 1986 must have been produced on paper, by a printing method then conventional (such as letterpress, offset printing) or by hectographing or mimeographing (ICZN, 1999).

Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 4e série, section A - Zoologie, biologie et écologie animales: Each number has a final page stating the date when the printing of the number was concluded and the date when the previous number was distributed (published). See example of printing date for volume 3, number 3, on page 935 of the same, at BHL. See example of distribution date for volume 3, number 3, on page 1228 of volume 3, number 4, at BHL.

Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College: Publication date down to month is printed on each number and also given on the table of contents of the respective volume. See example for volume 62 at BHL.

Bulletin of the National Museum: See "Bulletin of the Raffles Museum".

Bulletin of the Raffles Museum: Low & Tan (2009) found that the dates of publication of several volumes of the Bulletin of the Raffles Museum and the Bulletin of the National Museum were earlier or later than previously accepted by Ng et al. (1994).
Ng, P. K. L., N. Sivasothi & L. K. Wang (1994): History, dates of publication and bibliography of the Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Bulletin of the National Museum and The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (1928–1993). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 42 (1): 1–105. https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2017/06/RBZ_421_FULL.pdf
Low, M. E. Y. & S. H. Tan (2009): Dates of publication of the Bulletin of the Raffles Museum and Bulletin of the National Museum, predecessors to the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement, 22: 283–294. https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2017/06/s22rbz283-294.pdf

Bulletin of the United States National Museum: A comprehensive resource containing exact publication dates is wanting. Publication date of volume 46 is set to 30 November 1893 following Shelley & Backeljau (1995).
Shelley, R. M. & T. Backeljau (1995): Plutoniinae Bollman, 1893 (Arthropoda, Chilopoda) And Plutoniinae Cockerell, 1893 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): Proposed Removal Of Homonymy. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 52 (2): 150–152. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.6752

Bulletin of the University of Utah: Exact publication dates are printed on each number. See example for volume 31, No.12 at the Digital Library of the University of Utah.

Bulletin of the University of Utah, Biological Series: A parallel numbering system. Publication date of volume 6, No. 5 of the Biological Series corresponds to the example above for volume 31, No.12 of the Bulletin.

Cretaceous Research: Uncertainty over when papers in Cretaceous Research were published were discussed by Ross (2021: 58): "The Editor-in-Chief has explained that from volume 103 an article numbering system was introduced so that papers in volumes are no longer consecutively paginated (Eduardo Koutsoukos, pers. comm. 2020). The ‘available online’ date was when the in-press version of a paper was uploaded. The final version is published on-line when it is assigned a volume number and the volume is referred to as ‘In progress’. Once a volume is complete then it is printed and thus published in the traditional sense. Volumes 103–107 were completed and published in 2019 even though I referred to these papers as ‘on-line’ in Ross (2020) and volumes 105–107 have ‘2020’ at the top of the papers. Volumes 108–118 were completed in 2020, however volumes 117 and 118 have the year ‘2021’ at the top of the papers. Although some papers in Volume 119 were published on-line in 2020 the volume was not completed until January 2021..."
Ross, A. J. (2021): Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2020. Palaeoentomology, 4 (1): 57–76. https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.1.11

Deutschlands Insecten ... (1829–1844)
Nagel, P. & Grieder, L. (2019): Herrich-Schäffer’s Deutschlands Insecten ... (1829–1844), the associate publication of Koch’s Deutschlands Crustaceen ... (1835–1844), and Heft 110 (1823) of Panzer’s Faunae Insectorum Germanicae ...: bibliographic notes and dating. Sherbornia, 5 (1): 1–156. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/dating/sherbornia/issue5.html

Deutschlands Crustaceen ... (1835–1844)
Nagel, P. & Grieder, L. (2019): Herrich-Schäffer’s Deutschlands Insecten ... (1829–1844), the associate publication of Koch’s Deutschlands Crustaceen ... (1835–1844), and Heft 110 (1823) of Panzer’s Faunae Insectorum Germanicae ...: bibliographic notes and dating. Sherbornia, 5 (1): 1–156. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/dating/sherbornia/issue5.html

Die Heimat: Volume 33, issue 4, containing a work by Otto Schubart, appeared on April 1923 according to the front page of issue 4: https://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/de/nc/detail.html?tx_dlf[id]=9818&tx_dlf[page]=73

Edinburgh Encyclopaedia: See some publication dates, with year or month precision, in: Sherborn, C. D. (1937): Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Issued in 18 vols. from 18- to 1830. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 1 (4): 112. https://doi.org/10.3366/jsbnh.1937.1.4.112

Entomological News: Exact dates at which the numbers were mailed at the post office for distribution are recorded at the beginning of each volume. See example at BHL.

Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana: This book has two editions, one in 1853 and one in 1854. The publication date of the first edition is set to 08/11/1853, its "presentation date" to the U.S. Senate. See book page ii. Marcy, R. B. & G. B. McClellan (1853): Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852: with reports on the natural history of the country. United States. 32d Congress, 2d Session. Senate. Executive, No. 54. Washington, Robert Armstrong, public printer. xvi + 320 pp + 2 maps in a separate cover. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.66388

Faunae Insectorum Germanicae ... (1823)
Nagel, P. & Grieder, L. (2019): Herrich-Schäffer’s Deutschlands Insecten ... (1829–1844), the associate publication of Koch’s Deutschlands Crustaceen ... (1835–1844), and Heft 110 (1823) of Panzer’s Faunae Insectorum Germanicae ...: bibliographic notes and dating. Sherbornia, 5 (1): 1–156. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/dating/sherbornia/issue5.html

Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series: Exact publication dates for the numbers can be found on the cover page of each number. See example for volume 28, number 4 at BHL.

Godeffroy Museum Sales Catalogs: Historical and bibliographical information on the Godeffroy Catalogs can be found in: Bieler, R & R. E. Petit (2012): Molluscan taxa in the publications of the Museum Godeffroy of Hamburg, with a discussion of the Godeffroy Sales Catalogs (1864–1884), the Journal des Museum Godeffroy (1873–1910), and a history of the museum. Zootaxa, 3511. Magnolia Press, New Zealand, 80 pp. ISBN 978-1-77557-022-6 (paperback). https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3511.1.1

Invertebrate Zoology: Exact publication dates of Invertebrate Zoology issues can be found at https://kmkjournals.com/journals/Inv_Zool/IZ_Exact_Publ_Dates

Journal des Museum Godeffroy: Historical and bibliographical information on the Godeffroy Catalogs can be found in: Bieler, R & R. E. Petit (2012): Molluscan taxa in the publications of the Museum Godeffroy of Hamburg, with a discussion of the Godeffroy Sales Catalogs (1864–1884), the Journal des Museum Godeffroy (1873–1910), and a history of the museum. Zootaxa, 3511. Magnolia Press, New Zealand, 80 pp. ISBN 978-1-77557-022-6 (paperback). https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3511.1.1

Journal of Natural History: Exact publication dates from 1967 until October 30, 2003 are recorded in: Evenhuis, N. L. (2003): Publication and dating of the journals forming the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and the Journal of Natural History. Zootaxa, 385: 1–68. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.385.1.1

Journal of Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London: Exact publication dates from 7th November 1834 to 30th January 1896 were recorded by Wheeler (1912). The "Proceedings" were published together with the "Transactions", except for the "Proceedings" from 1840 to 1846 inclusive, which were published in separate sheets. Since the beginning of the year 1896 each part has borne the month and day of publication, and with very few exceptions these may be taken as correct. The three cases of more important discrepancy (Vol. for 1900, Part 3; Vol. for 1903, Part 2; Vol. for 1907, Part 5) were also clarified by Wheeler (1912: 764, Appendix C). See: Wheeler, G. (1912): On the dates of the publications of the Entomological Society of London. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 59 (4): 750-767. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1912.tb02207.x

Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: See Nolan, E. J. & W. J. Fox (1913): Dates of publication. Pp. vii– xiv. In: Nolan, E. J. (Ed.). An index to the scientific contents of the Journal and Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Published in commemoration of the centenary of the Academy, March 21, 1912. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. xiv + 1419 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/37897

Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology): Not to be confused with the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, from which it stemmed. Succeeded by The Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology). See Kappel (1896: v-vi) for publication dates from 1.iii.1856 to 5.xii.1865.

Le Règne Animal: Much has been written on the publication dates of the first and subsequent editions of "Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée" published by Georges Cuvier.
On the first edition (Cuvier's edition):
Whitehead, P. J. P. (1967): The dating of the 1st edition of Cuvier's Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 4 (6): 300-301. https://doi.org/10.3366/jsbnh.1967.4.6.300
Cowan, C. F. (1969): Cuvier's Règne animal, First Edition. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 5 (3): 219. https://doi.org/10.3366/jsbnh.1969.5.3.219
Roux, C. (1976): On the dating of the first edition of Cuvier's Règne Animal. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 8 (1): 31. https://doi.org/10.3366/jsbnh.1976.8.1.31
On subsequent editions:
Sherborn, C. D. (1922): On the Dates of Cuvier, 'Le Règne Animal,' etc. (Disciples Edition). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10 (59): 555-556. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222932208632807
Cowan, C. F. (1976): On the Disciples' Edition of Cuvier's Règne Animal. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 8 (1): 32-64. https://doi.org/10.3366/jsbnh.1976.8.1.32
Cowan, C. F. (1969): Notes on Griffith's Animal Kingdom of Cuvier (1824-1835). Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 5 (2): 137-140. https://doi.org/10.3366/jsbnh.1969.5.2.137

Lunds universitets årsskrift, n. f., avd. 2: The articles in the Lunds universitets årsskrift, n. f., bear two parallel numbering systems, one for the volumes of the årsskrift and one for the volumes of the “Kungl. Fysiografiska sällskapets handlingar, ny följd”. Exact printing dates of the numbers (articles) are recorded on the last page. Those printing dates are used as a proxy (earliest date) for publication dates.

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Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan: The Occasional Papers were issued separately to libraries and specialists, and, when a sufficient number of pages were printed to make a volume, a title page, table of contents, and index were supplied to libraries and individuals on the mailing list for the entire series. The articles are "numbers", and each bear an exact date on the first page. See example for number 97 at BHL.

Pomona College Journal of Entomology: The numbers of each volume bear a date down to month on the cover page. See example for volume 4, number 1 at BHL. The first text page of the volume also bears a month/year date. See example for volume 4, number 1, page 649 at BHL.

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: See Nolan, E. J. & W. J. Fox (1913): Dates of publication. Pp. vii– xiv. In: Nolan, E. J. (Ed.). An index to the scientific contents of the Journal and Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Published in commemoration of the centenary of the Academy, March 21, 1912. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. xiv + 1419 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/37897

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington: Exact publication dates are printed on the first page of each article. See example for volume 71, article 38 at BHL.

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington: Exact publication dates (mailing dates) are printed on the issues. See example of mailing date printed on one front matter page of volume 70, issue 4, for December 1968, mailed on December 18, 1968. See example of mailing date printed on the back cover page of volume 79, issue 3, for July 1977, mailed August 5, 1977).

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London: See Jackson (1888: v, vii) for publication dates from 9.iii.1839 to 10.x.1886. See Kappel (1896: v, vii-viii) for publication dates from 9.iii.1839 to viii.1891.
Jackson, B. D. (1888): General index to the first twenty volumes of the Journal (Botany), and the botanical portion of the Proceedings, November 1838 to June 1886, of the Linnean Society. Taylor & Francis, London, vii + 428 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/291945
Kappel, A. W. (1896): General index to the first twenty volumes of the Journal (Zoology), and the zoological portion of the Proceedings, November 1838 to 1890, of the Linnean Society. Taylor & Francis, London, viii + 437. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98560

Proceedings of the United States National Museum: Volume 5, page II reads "The importance to science of prompt publication of descriptions of this material led to the establishment, in 1878, of the present series of publications, entitled "Proceedings of the United States National Museum," the distinguishing peculiarity of which is that the articles are published in signatures as soon as matter sufficient to fill sixteen pages has been obtained and printed. The date of publication being plainly expressed in each signature, the ready settlement of questions of priority is assured." Dates of preprints issued between 1890-1897 (none on Myriapoda or Onychophora) are mentioned in: Blackwelder, R. E. (1952): Preprints of Proc. U.S. National Museum, 1890-1897. Systematic Zoology, 1 (2): 86-89. https://doi.org/10.2307/2411369. Exact publication dates of more recent articles are recorded in the table of contents of the respective volume. See an article dated as "January 27, 1960" at BHL.

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: The publication dates by Duncan (1937) were further assessed by Dickinson (2005).
Duncan, F.M. (1937): On the dates of publication of the Society’s ‘Proceedings,’ 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings,' 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the ‘Transactions,’ 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, (section A), 107: 71–84. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1937.tb08500.x
Dickinson, E.C. (2005), The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1859–1900: an exploration of breaks between calendar years of publication. Journal of Zoology, 266: 427-430. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952836905007077

Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, New Series: The New Series had two parallel numbering systems. One numbering system corresponded to consecutively numbered volumes, containing four parts each. The other numbering system corresponded to "numbers", which were consecutive across all volumes and parts. The publication date (month and year) of the parts (= numbers) of a volume is given on the table of contents of the respective volume. See example for volume 45, part 3 (= number 179), at BHL.

Revista do Museu Paulista: For taxa published in the Revista and other publications of the Museu Paulista, the following paper is most useful: Camargo-Andrade, Carlos Amadeu de. (1936) [1937]: lndice das formas novas e novos nomes technicos vindos a lume na “Revista” e nas outras publicações do Museu Paulista desde sua fundação até junho de 1936. Revista do Museu Paulista, 21: 671-838. (Published 4.ix.1936) https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48581434

Revue suisse de Zoologie: Exact publication dates of the numbers are recorded in the table of contents of the respective volume. See example for volume 10, numbers 1 and 2, at BHL.

Russian Entomological Journal: Exact publication dates of Russian Entomological Journal issues can be found at https://kmkjournals.com/journals/REJ/REJ_Exact_Publ_Dates

Senckenbergiana biologica: A list showing all publications and publication dates from volume 73 (1994) to volume 88 (2008) (inverted chronologically, the most recent volume at the top), is available at the Saturnia website.

The American Naturalist: The numbers around 1869-1870 are dated down to month on the cover page. See cover page for volume 3, number 2, published in April 1969, at the BHL. The numbers around 1895 are dated down to month on the cover page and also at the top of the internal pages. See cover page for volume 29, number 348, published in December 1895, at the BHL (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41521301).

The Canadian Entomologist: Publication dates down to month are shown on the first page of each number. See example for volume 41, number 1 at BHL. Month and year are also printed at the foot of the page where each article starts.

The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, New Series: Publication dates down to day are shown at the top right corner of even pages. See example for volume 58, number 12 at BHL. Numbers of volume 58 are regularly dated, as the 15th of each month.

The Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology): Preceded by the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology). See Kappel (1896: vi-vii) for publication dates from 30.iv.1866 to 31.vii.1890. Later exact publication dates of the numbers (including pagination) composing a volume are recorded on a dedicated page of said volume. See dating page for volume 24 (1891-1894) at BHL.

Transactions of the Entomological Society of London: Exact publication dates from 7th November 1834 to 30th January 1896 were recorded by Wheeler (1912). Since the beginning of the year 1896 each part has borne the month and day of publication, and with very few exceptions these may be taken as correct. The three cases of more important discrepancy (Vol. for 1900, Part 3; Vol. for 1903, Part 2; Vol. for 1907, Part 5) were also clarified by Wheeler (1912: 764, Appendix C). See: Wheeler, G. (1912): On the dates of the publications of the Entomological Society of London. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 59 (4): 750-767. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1912.tb02207.x

Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Exact publication dates for Series I are recorded in: Raphael, S. (1970): The publication dates of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series I, 1791-1875. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2 (1): 61-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1970.tb01688.x

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London: Exact publication dates are recorded in: Duncan, F.M. (1937): On the dates of publication of the Society’s ‘Proceedings,’ 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings,' 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the ‘Transactions,’ 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, (section A), 107: 71–84. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1937.tb08500.x

Veröffentlichungen aus dem Übersee-Museum Bremen, Reihe A: Exact publication dates recorded on the top right corner of the first page of an article.

Zoologica: scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society: Exact publication dates for the parts of each volume are given in the table of contents of the respective volume, and on the cover page of each part. See examples of dates in the table of contents of volume 32, parts 1-4, at BHL. See example of date on the cover page of volume 32, part 1, at BHL.

Zoologischer Anzeiger: Exact publication dates of the numbers are recorded in the table of contents appearing on the first page of each number. Reprints of individual articles bear the exact publication date of the corresponding number. See example of exact date for vol. 34, number 5, at BHL.