Citationstyle: Abbreviation f. and ff. for 2 and 3 pages

thepolice
Some citation styles require to abbreviate two or three consecutive pages like the following examples: instead of pages 12-13 is should be just 12f. and instead of 12-14 is should rather read 12ff. Does anyone know how to implement something like this in the xml file for a citation style?
I searched around but couldn't find anything useful yet (maybe just using the wrong search terms?).
  • adamsmith
    I'm afraid that's not possible to automate, sorry. For what it's worth, ff. is almost universally falling out of favor.
  • DWL-SDCA
    edited May 12, 2018
    ... falling out of favor.

    Isn't that still rather common in legal journals? I'll admit that I mostly only see the start page listed without any "f".

    FWIW, my personal preference is to always that the _range_ listed.
  • adamsmith
    In law, using just the starting page is for the whole article, though, where that's indeed sufficient for the purpose at hand (i.e. quickly finding the article).
    For a pinpoint/locator for a specific argument or citation, ff. is just unnecessarily vague, given that it maybe saves you 2 characters.

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