LaTeX forum ⇒ Text Formatting ⇒ dcu: lastchecked and urldate in misc entries?

[demon]

Hi again,

this is hopefully the last query for my thesis. I'm going to create a proper preset for my university with the hope others won't have so much trouble.

As already mentioned, I'm using natbib with scrreprt. In my BibTeX-Bibliography I have several entries as 'misc', like Blog- or Wiki-articles. As there's a rule to put at least a date for each url, I used Urldate and Lastchecked variables in BibTeX. How can I display these variables in my bibliography?

Thanks in advance!

[demon]

Sorry, I forgot the most important part ... Bibliography-Style is dcu.

\bibliographystyle{dcu}

[demon]

Hey guys, I need to print this thesis tomorrow, so any help is really appreciated.

I tried to modify the URL function in dcu.bst, but that's horrible.

[demon]

got it with a modified dcu.bst.

[SianKJones]

This has taken me hours. I know it'll be no use to demon now but I'm hoping that if someone else out there is stuggling like I am then this may help.

I use abbrv and booklet to format my webpages in my references:

@BOOKLET{aref,
  title = {A Title},
  author = {A. Author},
  howpublished = {Available at: \url{http://www.google.com}},
  lastchecked = {29/09/09},
  year = {2005},
}

I couldn't get the lastchecked to appear. I searched for abbrv.bst on my computer opened it up and edited the file. These are the changes I made:

1. Add lastchecked in

ENTRY

2. Add the following code in the same sort of place as formatting for authors, editors etc.

FUNCTION {format.lastchecked}
{ lastchecked empty$
    { "" }
    { inbrackets "Last Accessed: " lastchecked * }
  if$
}

3. Add the following line before fin.entry in booklet.

format.lastchecked output

I'm sure these changes could be applied to other things and I hope this manages to help when you're trying to edit bst files.

Sian