et seq.

et seq. abbreviates et sequentes (or et sequentia), 'and the following ones'. In a citation it tells the reader that the material continues past the page or section named: 'pp. 45 et seq.' means page 45 and an unspecified number of pages after it.

It is standard in legal citation, where statutes are cited as '42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.' to refer to an entire statutory scheme beginning at that section. Outside law, most style guides now discourage it: Chicago prefers an explicit range ('pp. 45–52') because et seq. leaves the endpoint undefined and cannot be checked.

The plural form et seqq. (or ff.) signals more than one following page. In practice ff. has largely displaced et seqq. in humanities writing, and both are losing ground to explicit ranges in digital publishing, where a reader clicking a citation expects a bounded target.

Common mistake: writing 'et. seq.' with a period after 'et'. 'Et' is a complete Latin word, not an abbreviation, so it takes no point — the same rule that makes 'et al.' correct and 'et. al.' wrong.