BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Clickable URL Fields in References

[tsikerdekis]

Hello everybody,

i have no idea if this is a BibTeX specific problem or a LaTeX but since it has to do with references i decided to post it here.

I have a bib file with several references that contain URL fields. The journal that i am planning to send my paper requires clickable links for the URL fields. I can't figure out how to do that.

Is it a package, is it the bibliographic style or is it a certain syntax that i have to use within the bib file?

[kaiserkarl13]

It is both a package and a syntax! If you define your URLs with \url around them, then all you need to do is include

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\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

as the last included package and it should work. Your BibTeX file would then look like this:

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@misc{Google,
  author = "Bad S. Peller",
  title  = "The Evil Empire",
  url    = "{\url{http://www.google.com}}",
  year   = 2011
}

[tsikerdekis]

thanks! i tried it and it works well. Turns out the \url is not neccessary for bibtex. If the link is under the url field it is automatically converted

[kaiserkarl13]

True, true. I usually put it under the "howpublished" field, as URL is not supported by some bibliography styles. If it's there, you do need \url.