Related Elements

Inside the <counts> container element are the counts of various components of the article: the <fig-count> is the number of figures, the <table-count> is the number of tables, the <equation-count> is the number of display equations, the <ref-count> is either the number of references or (more properly) the number of citations in the bibliographic reference list, the <page-count> is the total page count, and the <word-count> is the number of words in the article.

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

• <fpage> names the page number on which the article begins;
• <lpage> names the page number on which the article 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 (See note below.); 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. Unlike the other page-related elements, which are used both in the metadata and in bibliographic citations, this is a metadata-only element, except in the deprecated <nlm-citation>. For all other citation types, the total page count of a cited work is tagged using the <size> element.

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 through 11, skipped to page 14, ran through 19, and concluded on page 40.

<!ELEMENT  page-count    EMPTY                                       >

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<article-meta>
...
<abstract>...</abstract>
<conference>
<conf-date>1999</conf-date>
<conf-name>The 27th annual ACM SI/GUCCS
conference</conf-name>
<conf-acronym>SIGUCCS</conf-acronym>
<conf-num>27</conf-num>
<conf-loc>Denver, Colorado, United States</conf-loc>
<conf-sponsor>ACM, Assoc. for Computing
Machinery</conf-sponsor>
<conf-theme>User services conference for
university and college computing service
organizations</conf-theme>
</conference>
<counts>
<fig-count count="5"/>
<table-count count="3"/>
<equation-count count="10"/>
<ref-count count="26"/>
<page-count count="6"/>
<word-count count="2847"/>
</counts>
</article-meta>
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