There are some institutions where undergraduates/bachelor students may submit reports (e.g. project reports) at end of a semester. Say, I want to refer to such a report using a bibtex or biblatex entry. The only thing so far I found in use is on Master or semester project reports (en:output:student_reports [Algo]), where it seems they use the unpublished entry type (example here).
Is there maybe a more appropriate entry type than unpublished, that would work in either bibtex or biblatex, respectively? I wouldn't go with article or inproceedings because that implies publishing, nor with misc (I use that for plain webpages already) – but would, say, techreport be appropriate, or is there something better? Note that I'd also want to note a URL (and possibly URL date), and institution.
Here is also a "pseudo" entry as an example:
@????{cite-key,
author = {John Dough and Jane Doe},
title = {An example of some basic analysis},
submissiondate = {2013/01/22},
year = {2013}, % based on submissiondate
urldate = {2014/04/10},
url = {http://example.com/2013/example_semester_report_12.pdf},
note = {3rd semester project report},
institution = {Dept. of Something, University of South Nowhereton},
}
Best Answer
I think that thesis type is right. The following shows two possibilities. Incidentally, your date format was wrong, but I've corrected it: you need to divide dates with hyphens not slashes.