<fpage>

First Page

Page number on which a document starts.

Remarks

The <fpage> element is used in two contexts:
  1. As a part of the metadata concerning the article itself, and
  2. As part of bibliographic reference metadata inside a bibliographic citation (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>).
Electronic-only journals traditionally do not have page numbers and use the <elocation-id> element instead of using the <fpage> or <lpage> elements.

Related Elements

A number of elements in the Suite relate to page numbers:
  • <fpage> names the page number on which a work begins;
  • <lpage> names the page number on which a work ends (which should be the same page number or a number larger than the starting page number);
  • <elocation-id> replaces the start and end page elements just described for electronic-only publications;
  • <page-range> records discontinuous page ranges; and
  • <page-count> holds the total page count, if the publisher has provided one. Typically this element records what the publisher said and makes no validity claim. The element <page-count> should be used only in metadata. The citation elements (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>) use the element <size> to tag the total page count of a cited work. (Historical Note: The deprecated <nlm-citation> still uses the <page-count> element.)
Best Practice: The <page-range> is intended to record supplementary information and should not be used in the place of the <fpage> and <lpage> elements, which are typically needed for citation matching. The <page-range> element is merely a text string, containing such material as “8-11, 14-19, 40”, which would mean that the document began on page 8, ran through 11, skipped to page 14, ran through 19, and concluded on page 40.

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
seq Sequence
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  fpage        (#PCDATA)                                    >

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters

This element may be contained in:

<article-meta>, <element-citation>, <front-stub>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>

Example 1

In article metadata:
...
<article-meta>
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<collab collab-type="committee">Technical Committee ISO/TC 108, 
Subcommittee SC 2</collab>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<fpage seq="1">1</fpage>
<lpage>23</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="approved" iso-8601-date="2012-06-01">
<day>01</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2012</year>
</date>
</history>
...
</article-meta>
...
<article dtd-version="1.3d1">
<front>
<journal-meta>...</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">10092260</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Systematic review of day hospital care
for elderly people</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>...</contrib-group>
...
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="1999-03-27">
<day>27</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>1999</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>318</volume>
<issue>7187</issue>
<fpage>837</fpage>
<lpage>841</lpage>
<history>...</history>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>...</copyright-statement>
</permissions>
<abstract>...</abstract>
</article-meta>
</front>
...
</article>

Example 2

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref id="B8">
<label>8</label>
<element-citation>
<person-group>
<name><surname>Weissert</surname>
<given-names>W</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Wan</surname>
<given-names>T</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Livieratos</surname>
<given-names>B</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Katz</surname>
<given-names>S</given-names></name>
</person-group>
<article-title>Effects and costs of day-care services for the
chronically ill: a randomized experiment</article-title>
<source>Medical Care</source>
<year iso-8601-date="1980">1980</year>
<volume>18</volume>
<fpage>567</fpage>
<lpage>584</lpage>
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">6772889</pub-id>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...

Example 3

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref id="B8">
<label>8</label>
<mixed-citation>
<string-name><surname>Weissert</surname>,
<given-names>W</given-names></string-name>,
<string-name><surname>Wan</surname>,
<given-names>T</given-names></string-name>,
<string-name><surname>Livieratos</surname>,
<given-names>B</given-names></string-name>,
<string-name><surname>Katz</surname>,
<given-names>S</given-names></string-name>.
<article-title>Effects and costs of day-care services for the
chronically ill: a randomized experiment</article-title>.
<source>Medical Care</source>
<year iso-8601-date="1980">1980</year>;
<volume>18</volume>:
<fpage>567</fpage>&ndash;
<lpage>584</lpage>.
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">6772889</pub-id>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.3d1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of October 2019

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