<fpage>

First Page

Definition

The page number on which an article starts, for print journals that have page numbers

Remarks

The <fpage> element is used in two contexts:

  1. As a part of the metadata concerning the article itself; and
  2. As part of bibliographic reference metadata inside bibliographic references <citation> and <nlm-citation>.

For extensive examples of formatted <nlm-citation>s including use of <fpage>s in <nlm-citation>s, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations. To see tagged versions of these examples, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations - XML Tagged.

Electronic-only journals traditionally do not have page numbers and use the <elocation-id> element instead of using the First Page <fpage> or Last Page <lpage> elements.

Attribute

seq Sequence of Same-page Articles

Related Elements

A number of elements in the Suite relate to page numbers:

Note: 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 article began on page 8, ran 8 through 11, skipped to page 14, ran through 19, and concluded on page 40.

Model Information

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  fpage        (#PCDATA)                                    >

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters

This element may be contained in:

<article-meta> Article Metadata; <citation> Citation; <nlm-citation> NLM Citation Model; <product> Product Information; <related-article> Related Article Information

Tagged Examples

Example 1

In article metadata:


<article>
<front>
<journal-meta>
...
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">10092260</article-id>
<title-group><article-title>Systematic review of day 
hospital care for elderly people</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>...</contrib-group> 
...
<pub-date pub-type="pub"><day>27</day>
<month>3</month><year>1999</year></pub-date>
<volume>318</volume>
<issue>7187</issue>
<fpage>837</fpage>
<lpage>841</lpage>
<history>...</history>
<copyright-statement>...</copyright-statement>
...
</article-meta></front>
...
</article>


Example 2

In a NLM-style bibliographic citation:


...
<ref>
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<person-group>
<name>
<surname>You</surname>
<given-names>CH</given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname>Lee</surname>
<given-names>KY</given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname>Chey</surname>
<given-names>RY</given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname>Menguy</surname>
<given-names>R</given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title>Electrogastrographic study of patients with unexplained nausea, bloating and vomiting</article-title>
<source>Gastroenterology</source>
<year>1980</year>
<month>08</month>
<volume>79</volume>
<issue>2</issue>
<fpage>311</fpage>
<lpage>314</lpage>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
...


Module

common.ent