Pagination and Article Sequence

The start page and end page for an article should be tagged in the <fpage> and <lpage> elements. The <fpage> element must have a seq attribute that contains an integer to indicate the position of the article in the issue. For example:

<fpage seq="2">3</fpage>
<lpage>18</lpage>

For journals that use elocation instead of page numbers, the <ellocation-id> element should be used instead of <fpage> and <lpage>.

The number of typeset pages for the article should be recorded in the page-count element. Page count must be recorded in final and ahead-of-issue files, but may be omitted in earlier production stages before the number of typeset pages is known or when there is no PDF. For example:

<counts>
  <page-count count="8"/>
</counts>