<page-range>

Page Ranges

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:
...
   <fpage>8</fpage>
   <lpage>40</lpage>
   <page-range>8-11, 14-19, 40</page-range>
   ...

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
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  page-range   (#PCDATA)                                    >

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters

This element may be contained in:

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

Example 

...
<article-meta>
...
<fpage>100</fpage>
<lpage>120</lpage>
<page-range>100-101, 105, 107-120</page-range>
...
</article-meta>
...

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.2 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of May 2019

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