How to avoid p. after pp. in biblatex?

Question

Can anyone tell me how to avoid mentioning both the pp. and the p. in footnote citing of an article? I kinda find it ugly and redundant. Here is what I mean:

18J.R.R. Tolkien. “On Fairy-Stories”. In: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. Ed. by Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1983, pp. 109–161, p. 141.

In this case, I need to mention p. 141, but I wish to remove pp. 109–161. I don't want to have pp. omitted in all citations, but only when a specific page is mentioned.

I'm using the following:

\usepackage[bibstyle=verbose,citestyle=verbose-trad3,autocite=footnote,backend=bibtex,backref=true]{biblatex}

Answer 1

verbose styles provide a new preamble option called citepages.

The options are:

• citepages=permit: allows duplicates, i.e., the style will print both the pages/pagetotal and the postnote. This is the default setting;

• citepages=suppress unconditionally suppresses the pages/pagetotal fields in citations, regardless of the postnote;

• citepages=omit suppresses the pages/pagetotal only when the postnote is a page range;

• citepages=separate separates the pages/pagetotal from the number range postnote with a string a bib string (“especially”).

See the verbose style example file for more information.

Here's a MWE with citepages=suppress:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[bibstyle=verbose,citestyle=verbose-trad3,
            autocite=footnote,backend=bibtex,
            backref=true,citepages=suppress]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
\autocite[141]{kant:kpv}
\printbibliography
\end{document}