250 px|Page number in a book|alt=The bottom left corner of a page in a large book; the number "978" appears. Page numbering is the process of applying a sequence of numbers (or letters, or roman numerals) to the pages of a book or other document. The number itself, which may appear in various places on the page, can be referred to as a page number or as a folio.The Chicago Manual of Style, Sixteenth Edition (2003), pp. 32–33. Like other numbering schemes such as chapter numbering, page numbers allow the citation of a particular page of the numbered document and facilitates to the reader to find specific parts of the document and to know the size of the complete text (by checking the number of the last page). In books, some pages, known as blind folios, of the front matter and back matter are numbered , but the numbers are not always printedon the pages . Publishers are not consistent about how they number the pages of their books. Some publishers stick with the default numbering of the tool they are using, which is typically to number the first page of the front matter as 1 and all pages after that in a consecutive order. When publishers wish to distinguish between the front matter and the story , the initial title pages are not numbered , the front matter is numbered using lower-case Roman numerals (i, ii, iii...) and the first page of the story or main content begins with 1. The title page of the story is not numbered, but if a story is broken into multiple parts (Part I, Part II...), the title page for the section may be included in the numbering but not shown on the page . The first page of chapter one would then be numbered as page 3 rather than page 1 as would be the normal case. The sixteenth edition of the Chicago Manual of Style calls for the beginning of the text to begin with the Arabic number 1, while the front matter that precedes it is to be numbered with lower-case Roman numerals. If the front matter is extensive and a second half-title page is included, it is to be numbered as page 1 and its verso as page 2. If a part title is included, it is to be included in the same numbering as the text. Page numbers do not appear on part titles. Most citation systems also call for the identification of the page number from which a quote or point is drawn. For example, such usage is specified in their citation formats of both the Chicago Manual of Style,The Chicago Manual of Style, Sixteenth Edition (2003), pp. 596, 598. and The Bluebook.The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Seventeenth Edition (2000), pp. 34–36. Manuscripts In codicology, each physical sheet ( folium , abbreviated fol. or f.) of a manuscript is numbered , and the sides are referred to as folium rectum and folium versum , abbreviated as r and v respectively. This results in designations like 5r (the front side of the fifth sheet) , or 8v (the back side of the eighth sheet).
250 px|Page number in a book|alt=The bottom left corner of a page in a large book; the number "978" appears. Page numbering is the process of applying a sequence of numbers (or letters, or Roman numerals) to the pages of a book or other document. The number itself, which may appear in various places on the page, can be referred to as a page number or as a folio.The Chicago Manual of Style, Sixteenth Edition (2003), pp. 32–33. Like other numbering schemes such as chapter numbering, page numbers allow the citation of a particular page of the numbered document and facilitates to the reader to find specific parts of the document and to know the size of the complete text (by checking the number of the last page). In books, some pages, known as blind folios, of the front matter and back matter are numbered but the numbers are not printed . Publishers are not consistent about how they number the pages of their books. Some publishers stick with the default numbering of the tool they are using, which is typically to number the first page of the front matter as 1 and all pages after that in a consecutive order. When publishers wish to distinguish between the front matter and the body , the initial title pages are blind folios , the front matter is numbered using lower-case Roman numerals (i, ii, iii...) and the first page of the body or main content begins with 1. The title page of the body, if present, is a blind folio; similarly, any section title pages (e.g., when the body is broken into multiple parts ), are blind folios . The first page of chapter one would then be numbered as page 3. The sixteenth edition of the Chicago Manual of Style calls for the beginning of the text to begin with the Arabic number 1, while the front matter that precedes it is to be numbered with lower-case Roman numerals. If the front matter is extensive and a second half-title page is included, it is to be numbered as page 1 and its verso as page 2. If a part title is included, it is to be included in the same numbering as the text. Page numbers do not appear on part titles. Most citation systems call for the identification of the page number from which a quote or point is drawn. For example, such usage is specified in their citation formats of both the Chicago Manual of Style,The Chicago Manual of Style, Sixteenth Edition (2003), pp. 596, 598. and The Bluebook.The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Seventeenth Edition (2000), pp. 34–36. Manuscripts In codicology, each physical sheet ( , abbreviated fol. or f.) of a manuscript is numbered and the sides are referred to as and , abbreviated as r and v respectively. This results in designations like 5r (the front side of the fifth sheet) and 8v (the back side of the eighth sheet).
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