Biblatex – Displaying URL or DOI Field for Specific Entry Types

Question

I use biblatex with biter and the additional biblatex-phys package to have styles close to the convention of the APS / AIP.

By default the URL option is switched off and regular article are displayed with their journal reference being a hypertext link.

For report I would like to explicitly display the URL. If I switch on the URL option then the URL is shown even for the article (which is useless as it already contains a link).

Is there a way to control this behaviour for only a few entry types (report and maybe thesis).

Answer 1

With \ExecuteBibliographyOptions you can set the url option per entrytype. If you want to enable the option only for @report use

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=phys]{biblatex}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\ExecuteBibliographyOptions[report]{url=true}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@report{elk,
  author    = {Anne Elk},
  title     = {A Theory on Brontosauruses},
  year      = {1972},
  url       = {https://example.com/bronto.pdf},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Lorem \autocite{sigfridsson,elk}

\printbibliography
\end{document}