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<fpage> First Page

Page number on which a document starts.

Usage/Remarks

The <fpage> element is used as part of bibliographic reference metadata inside bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).
Cited 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
seq
specific-use

Multi-lang Attributes

lang-focus
lang-focus-custom
lang-group
lang-source
lang-source-custom
lang-translate
lang-variant
lang-variant-custom

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>
Description
Text, numbers, or special characters
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  fpage        (#PCDATA)                                    >
Tagged Sample

In citations

Mixed citation
<article dtd-version="1.4">
 ...
 <back>
  ...
  <ref-list>
   ...
   <ref id="B8">
    <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>
   ...
  </ref-list>
  ...
 </back>
</article>
Element citation
<article dtd-version="1.4">
 ...
 <back>
  ...
  <ref-list>
   ...
   <ref id="B8">
    <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>
   ...
  </ref-list>
  ...
 </back>
</article>