[Tex/LaTex] Internet citation using APA

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I'm looking for a way to include Internet citations in my bibliography and 'print' them using APA style. Currently I have natbib and apa-good.bst, but from what I've been able to gleam from Google, there is no support in natbib for online citations. There were mentions of BibLaTex, but since I'm new to TeX I have no idea how to use that.

Is there a way to get Internet citations correctly in TeX?

Best Answer

You wrote

... there is no support in natbib for online citations.

Sadly (or, rather, fortunately!), this claim is incorrect. Moreover, the apa-good.bst bibliography style file recognizes a field named url among the valid field names. Here's the file's bibtex code for the function write.url:

FUNCTION {write.url}
{ url empty$
    { skip$ }
    { "\newline\urlprefix\url{" url * "}" * write$ newline$ }
  if$ 
}

You'll need to have the url package loaded (to make it understand the instructions \url and \urlprefix).

If you don't like the \newline instruction, which tells LaTeX to insert a line break before the start of the URL, you can remove it from the code; just save the file to something like "myapa-good.bst", and then invoke this new file. However, the linebreak may be part of APA style and hence shouldn't be eliminated willy-nilly.

To sum up, using any of natbib's citation commands, you should get bibliography entries with associated URLs (assuming, of course, that the entries' URL fields aren't blank!)

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