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+ sing in the pages bibtex field when only starting page is given.

I need often to insert the starting page by hand editing the result of the browser import button. This happens for example with recent articles from AIP which use an article number in the place of the page number. Unfortunately the browser button seems to get confused and does not insert the article number in the pages field. If I use your edit function and put the page number on the start page field the page is generated with a + sing after the number. The official AIP prsty.bst does not attribute any special meaning to this + and inserts it in the final bibliography of the article I am written, so I have to remove it by hand from the bib file. Is it possible to make your system non to insert this + when only the start page is given? It will also be very nice if the import button from AIP articles is corrected so that the article number goes to the pages field. Thanks.

Comment posted by lorenzana

Thanks, this is OK for me, I never used a bib style with the page range. I wonder if it may not cause trouble to other users which are written an article for a journal which request the page range. There are articles which are one page long (for example in the news and views section of Nature) and they may need the page range even if it is one page long. It is not possible just to omit the + sing when only the starting page is given?

Comment posted by cjhall

I've tweaked the BibTeX export so that if the start page and end page are identical, it will only output that number, without a '+'. I think this should let you do what you want.

Comment posted by lorenzana

I forgot to post the link to the last article: http://www.citeulike.org/user/lorenzana/article/2844162

Comment posted by lorenzana

This is an example from and old style PRB article imported from http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v57/i3/p1422_1 The page is imported but it appears with a + sing in the bib export.

http://www.citeulike.org/user/lorenzana/article/2844126

This is an example from a new style PRB article imported from http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PRBMDO000072000022224511000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes The pages field is missing in the bib file. If I insert it by hand with the article number (224511) a + will appear in the bib export.

Comment posted by cjhall

Could you post a link to an article which shows this problem?