[SalesForce] How to export custom object list/details

Try using ?export=1&enc=UTF-8&xf=xls for the query string.

e.g. /00Oi0000002vZ5W?export=1&enc=UTF-8&xf=xls

You might want to change &enc=UTF-8 with &enc=ISO-8859-1 depending on the file encoding you want.

You can also get a CSV by changing the xf parameter to &xf=csv.

In a custom button or link using window.open will prevent the current browser window being redirected.

window.open('/00Oi0000002vZ5W?export=1&enc=UTF-8&xf=xls');

This is a many to many object model which will utilize a 'junction object'. Employing a pair of lookups defined on the junction object with a structure that looks like this:

Author (Contact) <-- lookup Paper_Author__c lookup --> Paper__c

This model supports an Author on many Papers as well as a Paper having many Authors. It also will give you the ability to display the related lists per Author and per Paper which you're interested in by showing the Paper_Author__c list in each case.

You state that it is 'up to 10' Authors on a paper and I would highly recommend against you defining the object model with Author 1, Author 2, Author 3 etc. This is going to be a painful thing to overcome in the future when the '10 author' model doesn't work any longer.

The many to many model using the junction object, is the proper implementation of this concept, allows for an 'unlimited' number of Authors on a Paper and is 100% future-proof.

Additionally, the Author 1, Author 2, Author 3 lookup field model will not allow you to display a related list of Papers an Author has contributed to.

The junction object is the correct approach in all cases.