Article-number publication
Original research draft · October 2026
Working pattern
[Author], [Title], [journal] [volume], art. [number], § [locator] ([date]).
Capture from the source
Article number; journal/volume; section/paragraph; version
Check before you use it
Preserve the article number as an identifier and use the publication's available locators.
Common error: An article number should not be silently treated as a first page.
Completed example
Author, journal, article, identifier, numbering, and publication date are fictional. No real article number, DOI, study finding, or publication record is asserted.
Hana Reed, Field Labels and Retrieval Errors, TRAIN Journal of Record Studies 4, art. e047, § 3.2, ¶ 4 (Feb. 6, 2025).
Read the supplied source facts
Fictional packet TRAIN-S67 provides Hana Reed's article Field Labels and Retrieval Errors in volume 4 of the TRAIN Journal of Record Studies. The journal assigns article number e047 and publishes the work on February 6, 2025. Its HTML version has numbered sections and paragraphs; section 3.2, paragraph 4, contains the assigned limitation. The PDF begins its internal pagination at 1, and e047 is printed in the header as an identifier rather than a page. The assignment asks for a citation to the stable numbered HTML passage. No DOI is supplied.
Why this works
Label e047 as an article number so the reader does not mistake it for a first page. The section and paragraph supply a locator within the article, using numbering actually assigned by the publication. Do not transform e047 into page 47 or add a journal page range that the source does not have. Capture the rendition used and check whether its numbering matches another rendition before switching locators. The source card should retain the title, article identifier, volume, version, and relevant passage, allowing a reader to find the work even if the publisher changes the surrounding website layout.
When the facts change
If the HTML paragraphs are unnumbered but the final PDF has stable printed pages, use an identified PDF page locator after inspection. If a correction is published as a separate article number, cite that correction and explain which statement it changes. If the journal republishes e047 with a version suffix, preserve the suffix rather than assuming that the base article number uniquely identifies unchanged content.
Apply the receiving court or publication’s requirements. These working forms do not establish citation permission, precedential weight, or support for a legal proposition.