Template:PublicationFields:Pages


 * Pages - The page count of the publication. For books, the general convention is to use the last printed page number. For magazines, the convention is to use the actual page count - including the cover.  For example, early issues of Fantastic Universe had the pages numbered from 1 to 192, not counting the front or back covers.  This would be entered as 196 pages.  If a publication is not paginated, leave the field blank and put "Not paginated" in the note field.
 * Some magazines that use a page numbering system that does not start from 1 in every issue. These are usually cases where the magazine has a volume and issue number, and the pagination restarts at 1 for every volume, but not every issue.  In these cases, calculate the actual total number of pages, and add in additional page count to represent the covers.  Enter this number.  You should also make a note in the note field, e.g. "Actual page numbering runs from 193 to 384".
 * When a book has a section with Roman numeral page numbers for introductory material, followed by Arabic numerals for the main text of the book, enter the page number as e.g. viii+320, where viii is the highest numbered page with a Roman numeral page number. Pages without numbers that fall between the two types of page numbering can be ignored. Note that you should include the enumeration of the pages in Roman numerals even if there is no material that requires a separate content record (such as an introduction or preface) in those pages. This is in contrast with the situation with unnumbered pages prior to page 1; see the following bullet point for what to do in that case.
 * Sometimes a publication will have unnumbered pages before page 1. If there is any material in these pages which needs to be entered as part of the contents of the book, you may record this by entering the count in [brackets]. For example [6]+320 would be a publication with six unnumbered pages and then 320 numbered pages. There is no need to record these unnumbered pages if they contain no content that needs to be recorded. At times you will need to count backwards from the first numbered page to see which is page 1 and then would count the unnumbered pages that are before this. Likewise, you may record the count of unnumbered pages at the end of a publication. For example, [6]+320+[4]. As before, only do this if there is content in these pages that requires entry. When counting pages in hardcover and some trade paperback publications do not count the endpapers. These can be identified as they are usually a stiffer paper than the standard pages.
 * Books in dos-à-dos format, such as Ace doubles, have two sets of page numbers, one for each half of the book. This can be entered as "256+320" for example.
 * It is fairly common for the last page of text in a book to have a different graphic layout which may not include a page number. The "last printed page number" rule would then use a page number before the end of the work.  In these cases, count forward to the end of the text and use that as the last page number.