Spire scripts:

texkey: convert magic \cite into spires texkey names
bibtexpires: generate bibtex from \cite{texkey}
bblspires: convert file.bbl into LaTeX(EU) spires format

Usage:
In your latex file use easy \cite keys like: \cite{hep-ph/0603456} \cite{0908.3456} \cite{phys_rev_d54_345}, then

$ texkey file.tex
file.tex.key is generated that could be overwritten into the original file.tex

The file.tex could have a format like

 [...]
 \usepackage[punctsep]{collref}
 [...]
 \bibliographystyle{h-physrev4}
 \bibliography{bibfile}

Then 

$ bibtexspires file
$ bibtex file
$ pdflatex file && pdflatex file

To change file.bbl into a more standard spires format:

$ bblspires file.bbl