How to cite a journal paper which do not have a page number? I was very annoyed with the Elsevier's journals. Many of them do not provide the page number of the paper.
For example, see, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165168420302176
You can not find any page number, expcept a weird seris of numbers &quot;Volume 176, November 2020, 107674&quot;.
Should I use that &quot;107674&quot; as the page number? (If I do this in bibtex , it would looke like pp. 107674)
Officially that number seems to be called Article Number (see the Table of Contents of Vol. 176 of that journal; the journal seems to have switched from 'page numbers' to 'article numbers' with Vol. 166).
It nevertheless seems safe to call it the page number. The reason is that Elsevier itself deposited that 'article number' as the 'page'-metadata in CrossRef (a depository for research papers' metadata).
See here: http://api.crossref.org/works/10.1016/j.sigpro.2020.107674, where it says:
&quot;page&quot;:&quot;107674&quot;