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" instead of "pages 141-145"), or, if you can make it work in context, insert references in the text for the cross-references to point to, like [Reference: Plants] and then reformat the cross-reference like "Our studies of plants (see [Reference: Plants]) show that this is true."

There are a few other cases, where the text you create is likely to be the subject of study or reference, in which it may also be desirable to retain page numbering.

When there are pages at the end of the book with notes referring to page numbers, the simplest answer is to change the page number references to chapter numbers, and add a quote from the page referred to if it's not already in the book's end-notes. That way, a reader can search for the phrase.

V.99. In the exceptional cases where I keep page numbers, how should I format them?

Within brackets of your choice, with one space either side, simply added to the text at the exact point of the page break. Unless there is some [142] special reason, you shouldn't insert a line break or new paragraph when indicating a page number; just insert it in the text, as I did with "142" above.

You should use whichever of round brackets, (143) square brackets, [144] or curly brackets {145} is not used (or least used) within the main text itself, and then use it consistently. Try to make sure that your page numbers cannot be confused with anything else.

Don't run your[146]page[147]numbers right up against words with spaces omitted; this just makes the text hard to read. Use spaces before and after.

Where the page break is at the start of a chapter or headed section, you can put it on a line of its own, for example:

[148]

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