Text describing discontinuous pagination (for example, 8-11, 14-19, 40).
Remarks
The discontinuous pages range “8-11, 14-19, 40” would be read as “a document begins on page 8, runs through 11, skips to pages
14 through 19, and concludes on page 40”.
The <page-range> element only supplements other page elements and DOES NOT replace <fpage> and <lpage>. The <fpage> element and the <lpage> element (where available) should always be tagged; infrastructures for linking references across publishers (such as that
of CrossRef) use first and last page information for a document as part of their identification process. Accordingly, material
with a page range should be tagged:
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.