<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
  • <book-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 <book-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.
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 Model

<!ELEMENT  page-range   (#PCDATA)                                    >

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters

This element may be contained in:

Example 1

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
    ...
<ref>
<element-citation>
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name><surname>Shneiderman</surname>
<given-names>B.</given-names></name>
</person-group>
<article-title>Designing information-abundant web
sites: issues and recommendations</article-title>
<source>Web Developers' Journal</source>
<volume>47</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<issue-title>World Wide Web Usability</issue-title>
<fpage>100</fpage>
<lpage>120</lpage>
<page-range>100-101, 105, 107-120</page-range>
<season>Summer</season>
<year iso-8601-date="1997">1997</year>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...   

Example 2

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
    ...
<ref>
<mixed-citation>
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<string-name><surname>Shneiderman</surname>
<given-names>B</given-names></string-name>
</person-group>.
<article-title>Designing information-abundant web
sites: issues and recommendations</article-title>.
<source>Web Developers' Journal</source>
<year iso-8601-date="1997">1997</year> <season>Summer</season>;
<volume>47</volume>(<issue>1</issue>)
<issue-title>World Wide Web Usability</issue-title>:
<page-range>100&ndash;101, 105, 107&ndash;120</page-range>.
<fpage>100</fpage>
<lpage>120</lpage>
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...