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Thank you very much... wonderful fix
I actually ended up using:
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@biblabel[1]{$#1.$}
\makeatother

There is an error message without using the '$' around the '#'

Ciao

System: texlive 2009 on Ubuntu 10.04

I used 'latex makebst' to generate my own .bst file... bloody journal is very particular. Everything looks great style-wise, apart from the listing in the reference section. At the moment it reads, as most style packages:

References
[1] I. Newton, ...

I need ...