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I have an example bib entry:

@article{bib_1, 
 title={article1}, 
 journal={arXiv:15xx.01678 [cs.SE]}, 
 author={xxx.}, 
 year={2015}, 
 month={Jan}}

When it compiles, the output of the journal is:

arXiv:15xx01678 [csSE]

How can I avoid the dot from being removed?

=Update===

Here is a mini example showing the problem: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45318932/example.zip

I am using the plos2009.bst - the reference style of PloS.

If you can not download the example, here are the content of the files in the example:

example.tex:

\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{article}

\bibliographystyle{plos2009}


\begin{document}

Some text, \cite{LeoTask_2015}.

\bibliography{references}

\end{document}

plos2009.bst:

http://www.plosone.org/static/plos2009.bst

references.bib:

@article{LeoTask_2015, 
 title={LeoTask: a fast, flexible and reliable framework for computational research}, 
 url={http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01678},
 journal={arXiv:1501.01678 [cs.SE]},
 author={xxxx}, 
 year={2015}, 
 month={Jan}
}
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    Please, make a minimal example of a complete document showing the issue.
    – egreg
    Jan 26, 2015 at 13:09
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    Too much information missing, e.g. with what system and styles do you compile your bibliography (as egreg said, provide a minimal example that can be compiled and shows the problem). Also: Strictly speaking the Journal Field is supposed to hold the journal name, not the arXiv ID.
    – Manuel Weinkauf
    Jan 26, 2015 at 13:28
  • A full MWE would be really helpful to investigate further... Anyway, biblatex has dedicated fields to deal with arXiv ids and the like: it would be eprint = {15xx.01678}, eprinttype = {arxiv}, eprintclass = {cs.SE}, in your example. (Do you actually use biblatex?)
    – moewe
    Jan 26, 2015 at 17:41
  • @egreg. I updated the question with a mini example. I tried eprint, eprinttype, eprintclass, etc but they are not supported by the style of plos2009.bst.
    – Changwang Zhang
    Jan 27, 2015 at 16:42
  • @Leo Again, the simple reason is that PLOS uses an abbreviation scheme that deletes the dots in journal name abbreviations. And again, if you want to use the PLOS style in a meaningful way, the arXiv is NOT what should go into the Journal Field. This field is reserved for the NAME of the journal in which the article was published. And for that matter, the arXiv ID is already included in the URL.
    – Manuel Weinkauf
    Jan 27, 2015 at 16:51

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For reasons known only to the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the journal names are stripped of periods, so “J. Amer. Math. Soc.” would become “J Amer Math Soc”, which is very dubious.

The solution is not to use the @article type for something published on arXiv, because arXiv is not a journal.

File example.tex

% Template for PLoS
% Version 3.0 December 2014
%
% To compile to pdf, run:
% latex plos.template
% bibtex plos.template
% latex plos.template
% latex plos.template
% dvipdf plos.template
%

\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{url}

\bibliographystyle{plos2009}


\begin{document}

Some text, \cite{LeoTask_2015}.

\bibliography{references}

\end{document}

File references.bib

@misc{LeoTask_2015,
 title={{LeoTask}: a fast, flexible and reliable framework for computational research},
 url={http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01678},
 howpublished={arXiv:1501.01678 [cs.SE]},
 author={xxxx},
 year={2015},
 month={Jan}
}

Note the braces around LeoTask in the title in order to avoid lowercase.

Output

enter image description here

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  • +1 for "The solution is not to use the @article type for something published on arXiv, because arXiv is not a journal." :-) [You beat me to the answer by a couple of minutes...]
    – Mico
    Jan 27, 2015 at 17:08
  • @egreg Journal names without dots is standard in MEDLINE (PubMed's large literature database). Relatively common (obviously) in medicine, and as you see also in some natural sciences journals. It's by far not the weirdest convention I have been coming across.
    – Manuel Weinkauf
    Jan 27, 2015 at 17:10

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