Page Number Format

The original Page Number Format macro was limited to finding numbers at the end of a reference. The new version gives you choices as is shown in the following image.

With the improved version, you choose a style and format. The x’s inside the square brackets ([ ]) indicate the patterns that the macro looks for in a particular style. For example, in the AMA style, the macro looks for numbers that fit one of these two patterns:

The x's in the pattern signify numbers but not the quantity of numbers. And note that some patterns include beginning and/or ending punctuation.

To illustrate, if the authors have followed APA style, they will have formatted numbers in one of these four ways:

If you choose APA style and choose 523-528, each of the four examples above will be changed so that 328-29 becomes 328-329. If you choose 523-8, each instance of 328-29 will be changed to 328-9.