BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ BiBTex & Mendeley - How to add a URL reference?

[RiW]

Hi,

I've been using Mendeley software to store all my research references and it's able to produce a BibTex library file for integration with Latex. I've got this working but am having a problem with websites.

Mendeley has a webpage type and it produces the following entry in the BibTex file:

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@misc{Telegraph2009,
booktitle = {The Telegraph},
title = {{Golf balls take 1,000 years to decompose}},
url = {http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6540852/Golf-balls-take-1000-years-to-decompose.html},
year = {2009}
}

Whilst I can cite this properly in Latex, it doesn't print the URL in the bibliography section, only the title and year. As a workaround I can put the URL as the author, although it then doesn't appear correctly formatted in the references section.

Therefore, I was wondering how the best way to include a Webpage reference was please, so it appears correctly formatted as a reference. I'm using "ieeetr" type bibliography, although this isn't essential.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[frabjous]

I think how @misc and other lesser used bibtex categories are handled varies widely between styles. You could look around for one that handled things as is the way you wanted, but if you wanted to stick with ieeetr, I'd personally probably use something like:

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@misc{Telegraph2009,
    howpublished = {\textit{The Telegraph} (online)},
    title = {{Golf balls take 1,000 years to decompose}},
    note = {\url{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6540852/Golf-balls-take-1000-years-to-decompose.html}},
    year = {2009}
}

You'll need to add \usepackage{url} or \usepackage{hyperref} to your document to handle the \url command.

[RiW]

Thanks, I'll give that a go. If anyone knows a way to integrate this fix into the Mendeley software then please let me know.

Thanks again.