[Tex/LaTex] Applying `longbibliography` option without using `\documentclass{revtex4-1}`

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I am using the revtex4-1 file apsrmp4-1.bst for my bibliography style, but am not using \documentclass[...]{revtex4-1} for the class option. That is, my document is something like

\documentclass[...]{puthesis}
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
\begin{document}
...
\bibliographystyle{apsrmp4-1}
\bibliography{bib}
\end{document}

This works fine as is, but I would like to use the longbibliography option of apsrmp4-1 to display the titles of all references. The REVTeX documentation (and this question) suggests the longbibliography option should be put in \documentclass[longbibliography,...]{revtex4-1}, but this does not work for me because I'm not using the revtex4-1 class.
Any suggestions for where the option can be specified?

Best Answer

The longbibliography option works by writing some commands to a .bib file that is read by bibtex. In a standard revtex4-1 document the name of this file is XXXNotes.bib where XXX.tex is the name of your tex file.

For a different documentclass you can get titles to appear by adding

@CONTROL{REVTEX41Control}
@CONTROL{apsrev41Control,author="00",editor="1",pages="1",title="0",year="0"}

to the top of your own bibliography file and adding \nocite{apsrev41Control} to your .tex file. To switch titles off, write title="" instead in the second line.

Sample output

.tex file:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}

\begin{document}
\cite{art}

\nocite{apsrev41Control}
\bibliographystyle{apsrev4-1}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

.bib file

@CONTROL{REVTEX41Control}
@CONTROL{apsrev41Control,author="00",editor="1",pages="1",title="0",year="0"}

@Article{art,
  author =   {Author, A.},
  title =    {Title is here},
  journal =      {Jour.},
  year =     2000,
  volume =   2,
  number =   1,
  pages =    {1--23}
}

If you want to avoid modifying your own .bib file, create a new .bib file, say mycontrol.bib with the above two lines and pass it to bibtex by adding it as an argument to the \bibliography command, e.g.

 \bibliography{mycontrol,mymainbibfile}

You can get some explanation of the other options by looking in a .bbl generated by a revtex4-1 document which includes comments such as

%Control: key (0)
%Control: author (0) dotless jnrlst
%Control: editor formatted (1) identically to author
%Control: production of article title (0) allowed
%Control: page (1) range
%Control: year (0) verbatim
%Control: production of eprint (0) enabled
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