BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Bibliography Format Issues on Overleaf with Mendeley Integration

[Sam_Land]

I'm writing my paper on overleaf.com with imported Mendeley.bib.

However, I noticed some of my "web-page type" references do not have URLs.

And some references with URLs are displayed with the notation "\url{...}".

Another problem is that some references interpret their "month" info as number, e.g. "9. 2015", instead of Sept. 2015

Whether I chose "acm" or "ieeetr" bibliography styles, the above issues persist.

Interestingly, if I cite my references on MS Word with the same library from Mendeley, the problems mentioned about do not exist.

Anyone can hint what could be the problem in my case?

Thanks in advance.

[Johannes_B]

Mendeley has no power about the bibliography in the LaTeX-genrated pdf.

You bibliographystyle (the bst file) takes care of that. You have to either find one, that suits your needs, or tweak the style you already have, which is often very very tedious.

An alternative would be to use package biblatex, where the formatting is done using LaTeX.

What would be the way to go depends on what you are doing right now. If you want to publish with ACM, there is no point to worry about stuff like that. They take care of stuff like that.