<page-count>

Page Count

Total number of pages in a work in print; by convention, each page or partial page is counted as one. Electronic-only works do not traditionally have page counts.

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

count Count
id Document Internal Identifier
xml:base Base

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  page-count   EMPTY                                        >

Description

This is an EMPTY element

This element may be contained in:

<nlm-citation>

Example 

...
<ref>
<nlm-citation publication-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Lawrence</surname>
<given-names>Ruth A</given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source>A review of the medical benefits and contraindications
to breastfeeding in the United States [Internet]</source>
<year iso-8601-date="1997-10">1997</year>
<month>10</month>
<access-date>cited 2000 Apr 24</access-date>
<publisher-loc>Arlington (VA)</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>National Center for Education in Maternal
and Child Health</publisher-name>
<page-count count="40" />
<comment>Available from:
<ext-link ext-link-type="url" xlink:href="www.ncemch.org/pubs/PDFs/
breastfeedingTIB.pdf">http://www.ncemch.org/pubs/PDFs/
breastfeedingTIB.pdf</ext-link>
</comment>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
...

Article Authoring Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015)

Version of December 2015

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