[Tex/LaTex] Problem with references! Need to line-break urls

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I am writing a paper and I have already added the references through bibtex.

There is something I don't like about the online references, they get to stretched out, from one side of the page to the other. And the online link gets out of the borders of the page.

Check the attached picture to understand what I mean. [3] is the problem

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this is the bibtex code I use for that reference. Any solution? Suggestions?

@misc{domination,
Title = {Heterogeneous Systems Dominate the Green500},
Author = { },
Howpublished = {\url{http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/two-brains-better-one-heterogeneous-systems-dominate-green500/}},
Month = nov,
Year = {2013},
Url = {http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/two-brains-better-one-heterogeneous-systems-dominate-green500/}}

Best Answer

Just for the sake of closure:

There are a couple of ways to tackle this problem.

As described by egreg, you can try using:

\usepackage[hyphens]{url}

At your preamble (i.e., just after \documentclass{})
You can configure ---or even change--- your .bst file (the one that goes in \bibliographystyle{yourfile.bst}) so you can get exactly the results you want (in the same way as, for example, IEEEtran does it.

Of course I would recommend going for the easiest and direct one: just use \usepackage[hyphens]{url} in your preamble and let the magic happen :)

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Since you use hyperref, you don't need to load the url package. After loading hyperref, you could redefine \harvardurl:

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Orignally, natbib defines it by

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You can use the url package:

\usepackage{url}
\newcommand{\sourcefile}{\url}

Using the above, and applying \url{} to the URL yields:

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Alternatively, you could use the `hyperref package:

\usepackage{hyperref}
\newcommand{\sourcefile}{\url}

and get click-able links:

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If the document is strictly for online viewing you could also use

\href{http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auth-pg-hba-conf.html}{auth pg hba conf}

and get links with text that does not show the entire URL but whatever text you specify as the second parameter.

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As egreg points out, if you don't want click able links on the files, you could use \path{} for the \sourcefiles and use \url for the web links

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\newcommand{\sourcefile}{\path}

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With the url package, you could also define different macros, and each can have it own style:

\DeclareUrlCommand\email{\urlstyle{rm}} 
\DeclareUrlCommand\directory{\urlstyle{tt}}

Note:

The showframe package was used to display the margins.
As Martin Scharrer pointed out is is best to use
```
\newcommand{\sourcefile}{\path}%  Better!!
```
or
```
\let\sourcefile\path%  Better!!
```
instead of
```
\newcommand{\sourcefile}[1]{\path{#1}}% Not so good
```
This will allow for the case where there any special characters in the file names as they will be processed in verbatim mode. So, for example, the following will work fine with the either of the "Better" labeled definitions above:
```
\sourcefile{~/.cshrc}
\sourcefile{abc%20def}
```

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