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Is there a way to selectively adding URLs to bibliorgraphy elements?
I use Mendeley and it automatically adds URLs to the DOI entries but I dont want these.
I don't want to eliminate all URLs though, as I quote a couple of documents from the web (specifications and RFCs).
Is there a way to mark the entries that should display the URLs differently from the rest?
This is possible by modifying the bst-file.
Copy the file unsrtnat.bst in your working folder. I recommand to rename the file maybe something like MYunsrtnat.bst. At line 285 of MYunsrtnat.bst you find the definition of the url output.
FUNCTION {format.url}
{ url empty$
{ "" }
{ new.block "URL \url{" url * "}" * }
if$
}
Change this definition as follow:
FUNCTION {format.url}
{ url empty$
{ "" }
{ new.block "\urlname{URL} \url{" url * "}" * }
if$
}
After this changing you can use the following example. There commands \urlname and \url gobble their argument. Before the bibliography is printed to commands are set to
\renewcommand*{\urlname}[1]{#1}
\renewcommand*{\url}[1]{\texttt{#1}}
Here the example:
\documentclass[]{tufte-handout}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{References.bib}
@article{Sarukkai:2005,
author = {Sarukkai, S},
title = {{Revisiting the 'unreasonable effectiveness' of mathematics}},
journal = {Current science},
year = {2005},
url = {http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/feb102005/415.pdf},
}
\end{filecontents}
\providecommand*{\urlname}[1]{}
\renewcommand*{\url}[1]{}
\begin{document}
This,\cite{Sarukkai:2005} includes the URL for the citation, which I don't want; thought I do want it in the bibliography.
\renewcommand*{\urlname}[1]{#1}
\renewcommand*{\url}[1]{\texttt{#1}}
\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}
\bibliography{References}
\end{document}
The url package provides an interesting extra piece of flexibility, via the construct \Urlmuskip. This specifies the spacing around the breakable characters. By default it is 0mu however you can set it some glue specification:
\Urlmuskip=0mu plus 1mu
(Unfortunately the example in the url manual is wrong. It says \Urlmuskip=0pt plus 1mu. Being a mathematical skip expression the only units allowed are mu.)
Anyway in your example this gives:
\documentclass[paper]{ieice}
\usepackage[hyphens]{url}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{breaklinks=true}
\urlstyle{same}
\usepackage{cite}
\title{Test document}
\begin{document}
this\cite{upnp_spec} is a test\cite{android_javascriptinterface} \cite{Author:Title}
\Urlmuskip=0mu plus 1mu\relax
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{refs_min}
\end{document}
with an extra entry in your bib file.
Other things one might try to help in general include making the bibliography ragged right. The easiest way to this is just to write \raggedright before your \bibliography command.
Better ragged right formatting is provided by the ragged2e package. Unfortunately your class defines the Center environment that clashes with the ragged2e, so in this case you would have to load it as follows:
\let\clsCenter\Center\let\clsendCenter\endCenter
\let\Center\undefined\let\endCenter\undefined
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\let\Center\clsCenter
\let\endCenter\clsendCenter
You could then issue \RaggedRight just before your \bibliography command. If there is text after the bibliography, you can turn on normal formatting again with the \justifying command.
Best Answer
With
biblatex, you could use the package optionurl=falseto disable URLs generally and then set the internalbbx:urltoggle to true for entries belonging to a certain bibliography category. Note that for the entry type@onlinethe URL will be displayed even if you seturl=false.