[Tex/LaTex] How remove links from apacite

apa-styleapacitebibliographies

I am unfortunately an absolute beginner with regards to Latex and am currently trying to create a bibliography that corresponds to the apacite style, but does not contain any links, since the DOI code is enough for me.

Is there a command that makes the links disappear for my code? I would be very happy if someone could help me in a hurry. Below is my code example, I have inserted appropriate placeholders for the quote and the text and the references are pulled from a .bib file.

I've googled a lot already, but only came across descriptions that were so complicated that I couldn't apply them to my simple file.

I would be very pleased to receive an answer! Thank you very much!

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{apacite}

\title {Demo Bibtex}
\author{Author}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

Text

\cite{Source}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}

\bibliography{/Users/Desktop/Latex/Bibtex-File/Bibliography.bib}

\end{document}

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I don't see any option for turning this off selectively. The following is a bit of a hack but it works. It redefines the apacite URL environment to be empty, and then in that environment only redefines the \url command to be empty. I've also added some code to keep the doi: prefix attached to the actual DOI.

This will not work if you have online resources that only have URLs and don't have DOIs, since it removes all URLs.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Landau2007,
    Author = {Landau, Idan},
    Doi = {10.1162/ling.2007.38.3.485},
    Journal = {Linguistic Inquiry},
    Number = {3},
    Pages = {485-483},
    Title = {{EPP} Extensions},
    Volume = {38},
    Year = {2007},
    url = {http://doi.org/10.1162/ling.2007.38.3.485}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\usepackage{apacite}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\renewenvironment{APACrefURL}[1][]{}{}
\AtBeginEnvironment{APACrefURL}{\renewcommand{\url}[1]{}}
\renewcommand{\doiprefix}{doi:~\kern-1pt}
\begin{document}
\cite{Landau2007}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

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You can use the etoolbox package to patch \NAT@thebibliographyand a convenient redefinition of \@biblabel (I assume here that you want to suppress the labels for the bib items, as you requested in other question):

\usepackage{etoolbox}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@biblabel[1]{\hspace*{\labelwidth}}
\apptocmd{\NAT@thebibliography}{\setlength\itemindent{-25pt}}{}{}
\makeatother

A complete example:

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\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\makeatletter
\special{papersize=\the\paperwidth,\the\paperheight}
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
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\citeauthor{#1}~(\citeyear{#1})\@
}
\renewcommand\@biblabel[1]{\hspace*{\labelwidth}}
\apptocmd{\NAT@thebibliography}{\setlength\itemindent{-25pt}}{}{}
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\author{Me}
\date{2 December, 2014}
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\section{Testing Citations}

As he said, \mycite{ECTA:ECTA438}, we need to be clear on testing. Also, \mycite{RefWorks:14} will play a role. When we now add \mycite{RefWorks:12}.

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Hello Intro.

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This is the output (I used the .bib file in your question):

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[Tex/LaTex] How to remove urls from bibliographies in apacite

This is some kind of hacky solution and I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to do so or not. Experience users, might kindly comment on this.

Locate apacite.bst file. In my linux system it is at

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/apacite/apacite.bst

Copy it to your working directory and rename it to something like Myapacite.bst. Open Myapacite.bst in your favorite text editor and find the function FUNCTION {format.url}. In my machine it is at line 3867. Comment the body of the function, i.e., change from this:

FUNCTION {format.url}
{ type.2 empty$
    { begin.end.url.env }
    { type.2 "\bibmessage" =
        { begin.end.msg.env }
        { begin.end.url.env }
      if$
    }
  if$
  "\url{" url * "}" *
  enclose.check
}

to this:

FUNCTION {format.url}
{% type.2 empty$
%    { begin.end.url.env }
%    { type.2 "\bibmessage" =
%        { begin.end.msg.env }
%        { begin.end.url.env }
%      if$
%    }
%  if$
%  "\url{" url * "}" *
%  enclose.check
}

Save it and use it with \bibliographystyle{Myapacite}. You probably need to clean your auxiliary files first.

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