PLzzz , whats the story of page number in PDF files?

Question

Our teacher told us to write the sources at the end of our research.
he said to write it in this form:

[1]name of the authors,"name of the article",publish company,PP(means the pages of the article which it has got published),date
[2]...
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Now my question is about PP(page number) which is expected to be a range for example like 400-405 or a page like 400.

I have a Source which i have both its e-book,and i have seen its book too. But we should write its e-book specification,not the book's for the source.

But the e-book,has nothing due to PP on it(page number at the start of it,nor at the end of it.)
But it(e-book) contains almost all of the pages of the the original book.
its a book in 200 pages.
I wonder is PP in this case as same as the number of the book pages?
should i write 1-200 ?! or 200?
Or the PP in the article is different from number of book pages,in this case?

Answer 1

If the ebook is precisely the same as the printed book, use the same page numbers. You said the ebook has "almost" all the pages ... you would have to compare the two to see where the difference is. Or, if you are to use the reference of what you have actually used, and its not numbered, then yeah, number it.

If it's done correctly when converting the original into pdf, the numbers in the pdf files correspond precisely with the numbers in the printed book.

However, it takes knowing how to use the PDF Creator well to accomplish this, and many of the books/articles I have seen, the pages do NOT correspond, because the person doing the converting hasn't set it up properly.

Answer 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsJhe05PzC4