Publication years on CV

[Bookworm]

Embarrassing that I don't know the answer to this-- I've recently published a book chapter in an edited collection that went to print in July. I'm holding it now in my hands in August. The copyright page lists 2025 as the publication year, however. Same issue with my own monograph-- I had published it and got a copy in November 2022, but the copyright page says 2023. I listed it as published Nov 2022 when I went up for tenure, so I'm not going to change it on my CV at this point, but for future reference, how do you identify the 'real' publication year? I wouldn't mind having something on my CV for 2025 already, but it seems strange if it already exists in physical form in the world in 2024...!

[sinenomine]

I've had the same thing happen a couple times. I stick with the copyright date, regardless if it's before or after the actual date it appeared.

[Vkw10]

Use the copyright date on the piece, because that's what will be used in citations to the work.

[Ancient Fellow]

An article I published some years ago for the 2017 issue of a venerable journal was physically produced in early 2018. The copyright page and the spine have different years. The uni press that publishes the journal used to insist on it as 2017, but now lists it as 2018. It is listed in Google Scholar and Elsevier Pure under two different years, and with one of those organizations as a journal article and one as a chapter in a book series. Cue much weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

This prompted me to finish a monograph that included the findings from the article, so that I might be able to refer back to the monograph instead of the article/chapter from 2017/2018.