[Tex/LaTex] bibtex display URL in reference

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I am trying to display a URL in a reference using the bibliography style ieeetr. According to here I can use the howpublished field in my bibtex entry, but it seems that this doesn't work for me. Here's my bibtex:

@Manual{XXXX,
title = {Title},
author = {Paul},    
Note = {version 1.6.0},
howpublished = {\textit{Available at \url{http://www.qqq.com}}}
}

and here my tex file:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{url}
\begin{document}
\section{A}
Citation:  \cite{XXXX}.
 \bibliographystyle{ieeetr}
\bibliography{vignette}
\end{document}

The bibliography looks like this after pdflatex and bibtex:

[1] Paul, Title. version 1.6.0.

but no URL. Does anyone see what could be the problem?

By the way, unfortunately I cannot use biblatex because the compilation must be running on multiple computers with standard latex installation.

However, I would be open to other bibliography styles if this would be a solution!

Best Answer

The bibliography style - ieeetr in your case - is responsible for choosing which fields to include in each entry of the bibliography. It seems that the howpublished field is not included for manuals.

How about just putting the url in the note field, like this:

@Manual{XXXX,
title = {Title},
author = {Paul},    
note = {Available at \url{http://www.qqq.com}, version 1.6.0}
}

Alternatively, as user Dukeatcoding suggests above, you could use a different bibliography style that supports an url field.

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{IEEEabrv,mybibfile}

See: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/bibtex/IEEEtran_bst_HOWTO.pdf

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If biber is used as backend, then one can use the \DeclareSourcemap facilities to change fields.

For the case at hand a solution is to remap url entries with dx.doi.org as initial part using the following code:

\DeclareSourcemap{
  \maps[datatype=bibtex]{
    \map{
      \step[ % copies url to doi field if it starts with http://dx.doi.org/
        fieldsource=url,
        match=\regexp{http://dx.doi.org/(.+)},
        fieldtarget=doi,
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    \step[ % removes http://dx.doi.org/ string from doi field
      fieldsource=doi,
      match=\regexp{http://dx.doi.org/(.+)},
      replace=\regexp{$1}
    ]
    }
  \map{ % removes url + urldate field from all entries that have a doi field
   \step[fieldsource=doi, final]
   \step[fieldset=url, null]
   \step[fieldset=urldate, null]
   }
 }
}

The actual value inside \regexp can be adjusted.

In the first step we create a doi field for each entry where the url field matches the regexp, and the novel field has the value of the url field. In the second step we remove the doi "namespace".

In the second \map sequence the url and urldate fields are cleared if a doi field is present, to mimic the behavior in the first part of the original question.

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