[Tex/LaTex] Use BibTeX to cite a website

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I looked on this page
How can I use BibTeX to cite a web page?
I used

@misc{keyword,
    title     = "Title",
    howpublished        = "\url{link}",
}

and the results is

Title.         URL.

on the same row but I'd like to use a style like this:

Title article
URL

without dots at the end of the title or URL and a new line for URL. Can I do this?

Best Answer

BibTeX

Copy the unsrt.bst style file to your document's directory and rename to, say, unsrt-custom.bst. On GNU/Linux this can be achieved with
```
cp $(kpsewhich unsrt.bst) ./unsrt-custom.bst
```

Edit the unsrt-custom.bst file. Add the function

FUNCTION {output.newline}
{ duplicate$ empty$
    'pop$
    'output.nonnull
  if$
  "\newline " write$
}

and adjust the FUNCTION {misc} accordingly

FUNCTION {misc}
{ output.bibitem
  format.authors output
  title howpublished new.block.checkb
  format.title output
  howpublished new.block.checka
  howpublished output.newline % <-- changed
  format.date output
  new.block
  note output
  fin.entry
  empty.misc.check
}

Run the chain pdflatex → bibtex → pdflatex → pdflatex on the following sample document.

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{keyword,
  title = "Title",
  howpublished = "\url{link}",
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{url}
\begin{document}

\cite{keyword}

\bibliographystyle{unsrt-custom}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

Enjoy the output.

BibLaTeX

biblatex comes with “batteries included” in the sense, that you can control the appearance of the style directly from the document. To achieve your desired style we modify the representation of the url field

\DeclareFieldFormat[online]{url}{\newline\url{#1}}

where we have used the new @online entry type, which is best suited to cite online sources. The full example boils down to the below document and the following chain of commands: pdflatex → biber → pdflatex → pdflatex

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@online{keyword,
  title = "Title",
  url = "link"
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[sorting=none]{biblatex}
\DeclareFieldFormat[online]{url}{\newline\url{#1}}
\addbibresource{\jobname}
\begin{document}

\cite{keyword}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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