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• Some styles might be AIP or APS. Specifically, Physical Review D (published by APS) is a common journal in high energy physics. This page on arxiv might be helpful as well: http://arxiv.org/hypertex/bibstyles/ I'm not sure how eprint info is hand…

  in SPIRES, BibTeX, and the arXiv -- problems/missing features Comment by johnnyboy624 December 9, 2009
• Thanks for helping me to narrow this down and make it quite explicit. Should I perhaps start a new topic asking for these specific changes, which I can spell out in some detail (and again summarizing the problems/goals)? Would it be more effective…

  in SPIRES, BibTeX, and the arXiv -- problems/missing features Comment by johnnyboy624 December 9, 2009
• Any recent physics paper on the arxiv will likely have both old and new style pre-print citations, and how these appear depend on the bibliography style in latex (e.g. see http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/TeXstuff/utphys.bst for a style, and the …

  in SPIRES, BibTeX, and the arXiv -- problems/missing features Comment by johnnyboy624 December 9, 2009
• Yes, the eprint info can be used to construct the url to the arxiv page, and even the pdf location itself (as the arxiv site translator does I believe). And you are correct that the primaryClass is not needed as newer entries (with a period in the …

  in SPIRES, BibTeX, and the arXiv -- problems/missing features Comment by johnnyboy624 December 9, 2009
• I agree with the potential problems you mention about arbitrary extra fields that aren't visible in the UI. This would require more work, like just having the raw Bibtex entry or something like that (and I guess would be a bit cumbersome and add cl…

  in SPIRES, BibTeX, and the arXiv -- problems/missing features Comment by johnnyboy624 December 9, 2009
• Nobody has any comments? Anyone else support these changes? Developers...?

  in SPIRES, BibTeX, and the arXiv -- problems/missing features Comment by johnnyboy624 December 9, 2009