[Tex/LaTex] Showing URL in bibliography using Overleaf and Mendeley

bibliographies

I'm using Overleaf to write in Latex, I'm also integrated Mendeley to generate bibliograpahy. Here is example web page entry generated by Mendeley.

@misc{DockerReference,
    title = {{Docker Reference}},
    booktitle = {2016},
    url = {https://docs.docker.com}
}

I'm joggling different bibliography stylies because I'm trying to display URL's in bibliography.

\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{Mendeley}

I've no idea how to do that. It's worth to mention that I can't edit bibliography file by my self in overleaf, so I can't change *.bib file.

Best Answer

Style unsrt doesn't support URL fields; try \bibliographystyle{unsrtnat} instead.

You'll also need \usepackage[numbers]{natbib}, and \usepackage{url} or \usepackage{hyperref} for proper handling of special characters (underscores etc) in the URLs.

In Citavi:

Go to File > Export > Export, select which titles you want to export, and click Next.
Select BibTeX and click Next.
Choose the desired output path/file, then click Edit BibTeX export definition...
Leave everything unchanged in the first window, click Next.
From the dropdown at the top, select Internet document
Next to Online address, remove url and type howpublished instead.
Next to Access date, remove urldate and type note instead.
Just click Next/Ok/Finish on everything that follows. (It will ask you whether you want to save your BibTeX export settings, and later also your general export settings. Do that if you like.)

Now the entries in the .bib file will be formatted almost as desired. (I still have to find a way to make it look exactly like I wrote in the question.)

In LyX:

Result:

As you can see, it's still lacking some text like "Available online at..." and "Last checked on...", and the date is not formatted nicely. I'll work on that and write an update as soon as I've found a good way.

[Tex/LaTex] How to remove ‘URL’ prefixed before the URL in bibliography

Is there an easy way to edit the .bst file to remove the prefix 'URL'?

Good news: You needn't edit your bespoke bibliography style file. It suffices to issue the instruction

\def\urlprefix{}

somewhere in the preamble. After making this change, be sure to re-run LaTeX, BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more to fully propagate the change.

If you wanted to edit the bst file, you could proceed as follows: Open the bst file in an editor and locate the function format.url. It should look like this:

FUNCTION {format.url}
{ url empty$
    { "" }
    { "\urlprefix\url{" url * "}" * }
  if$
}

Delete the substring \urlprefix. Then, save the bst file and rerun BibTeX and LaTeX. If, instead, the makebst utility created a function called write.url, simply delete the substring \urlprefix from that function.

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