[Tex/LaTex] How to cite another reference entry in BibTeX

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In BibTeX, I need to cite another entry as a note/comment of a first one, something like:

@article{Paper1,
author = {Author A.},
journal = {The Journal of XX},
number = {1},
pages = {4252},
year = {2000},
note = {see updated results in \cite{Paper2}    }
}

@article{Paper2,
author = {Author B.},
journal = {The Journal of YY},
number = {2},
pages = {1},
year = {2001}
}

Could you give a suggestion in doing this?

I think my need is not really fitting to what proposed here:
How to cite within a reference entry using biblatex

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The reference Paper2 is not visible to bitbex until the note in the reference Paper1 is inserted in the bibliography. Thus one needs to run bibtex a second time. Thus the workflow is

(pdf)latex
bibtex 
(pdf)latex
bibtex
(pdf)latex
(pdf)latex

If one wants to avoid the second call to (pdf)latex, then one could insert \nocite{Paper2} somewhere in the document, and then the reference Paper2 is visible for the first run of bibtex.

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It's also worth mentioning Biblatex, which has proper support for eprints with all styles. For arXiv, specifically, you can use

archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {0902.0885},
 primaryClass = {quant-ph},

for a new-style eprint, or

archivePrefix = {arXiv},
   eprint = {quant-ph/0401062},

for an old-style eprint.

Both entries were taken directly from the NASA ADS database, clicking on "Export". The journal field you left empty, except of course if has actually been published elsewhere. As for the template, it depends on the style you are using. I use @article with the style biblatex-phys, and the formatting is good, but with the default style it produces crap if journal is empty. In this case you can use @misc and @online, with similar results. You should avoid @unpublished, however, as it hides the eprint number.

EDIT: Updated to take into account the comments.

[Tex/LaTex] Citing a Reprint of an Article in BibTeX

A fast solution could be to add

note={reprinted in LewisPP1, pages 26--46}

in your article entry. With a little pretty printing you get:

@article{LewisCTQML,
  Author        = {David Lewis},
  Date-Modified = {2007-03-24 18:24:14 -0400},
  Journal       = {Journal of Philosophy},
  Pages         = {113--26},
  Reprintedin   = {LewisPP1},
  Reprintpages  = {26--46},
  Title         = {Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic},
  Volume        = {65},
  Year          = {1968},
  note          = {reprinted in LewisPP1, pages 26--46}, 
}

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