LaTeX forum ⇒ BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ @MISC wont show up on reference list Topic is solved

[tbstensrud]

I'm trying to add a URL to my reference list, but when I use this in the bib file

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@MISC{tek10,
AUTHOR="Lovdata",
TITLE="Teknisk forskrift 2010",
YEAR="2010",
URL="http://www.lovdata.no/cgi-wift/ldles?doc=/sf/sf/sf-20100326-0489.html"
}

nothing shows up in my pdf file when i run it. I get no error messages. Other references do show up in the pdf file.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

Perhaps post a minimal working example, which shows the problem when we run it. Follow the link to learn why and how. It could be a compilable but drastically reduced copy of the problematic document and the bibliography. So we would also see the bibliography style and the settings. Otherwise it's hard to guess - BibTeX or biblatex, natbib or standard, which style, and more is unknown.

Stefan

[tbstensrud]

Ok. Examples are the bib file and the tex file. Also, somehow the order of the references are not correct.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

In the attached referanseliste.bib there's a comma missing before the url. But the example in your first post is ok, so that's probably just another small typo.

The plain bibliography style ignores the url field. You need to use a style which supports it. For example, you could load natbib:

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\usepackage{natbib}

and later you specify plainnat, which is the natbib version of plain:

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\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

natbib provides also author-year styles, which are popular today.

Stefan

[tbstensrud]

I did as you said, however there are no url displaying yet. Also the order of references appears to be random. Ideally I want the references in the text to be labled 1,2,3 and so on regardless of their placement in the bib file.

I've looke at this site, http://merkel.zoneo.net/Latex/natbib.php, to find if there is a way to sort the references correctly, but I cant find it. Perhaps there are other packages who does this?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I did as you said, however there are no url displaying yet.

It's displayed when I do as above. Perhaps you did something different, you could check again. Have a look at my output:

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Also the order of references appears to be random. Ideally I want the references in the text to be labled 1,2,3 and so on regardless of their placement in the bib file.

Then perhaps use unsrt or unsrtnat instead.

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\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}

Stefan

[tbstensrud]

The error with the URL was my mistake. I was certain I added the "," there in the bib file, but i seem to have forgotten it, so it works now.

As for the numbering, for now I'm going to leave it as it is and go for the (author year) option which works just fine. Thanks for all the help. Much obliged!