BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ URL with dcu-style

[demon]

Hi folks,

I'm fiddling around with BibTex/BibDesk/LaTeX for a while to find a solution for my problem: URLs in the bibliography. When I put a URL into BibDesk, the BibTeX entry is:

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@url{Miller:lq,
	Author = {Paul Miller},
	Date-Added = {2008-12-23 13:57:38 +0100},
	Date-Modified = {2008-12-23 15:29:35 +0100},
	Lastchecked = {23.12.2008},
	Title = {iPhone 2.0 beta gets geotagging?},
	Urldate = {22.05.2008},
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/22/iphone-2-0-beta-gets-geotagging/}

But there's neither URL nor a date displayed in the resulting bibliography:

Miller, P. (n.d.). iphone 2.0 beta gets geotagging?

Few documents in the web are saying dcu/harvard package can display urls properly. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

[corderin]

Did you use the url package? I guess the hyperref package loads it also automatically...

Maybe it is necessary.

Regards...

[josephwright]

The field for the URL is usually just "url", rather than what you posted (is this a Bibdesk thing?).
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Joseph Wright

[demon]

It's not about linking with the url/hyperref package, that works fine. And url is written small-case in the code I provided, it's just my mistake with the capitals. It's just about the fact that there is no url given in the quotation, even if it's in the code.

[josephwright]

I was thinking of the field name "Bdsk-Url-1", which is not going to be supported anywhere. However, a quick look at dcu.bst also shows that it does not support the URL field anyway. You could alter the style to sort this out, but often it is best to start by using custom-bib to generate your own style from scratch.
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Joseph Wright

[demon]

Got it. dcu does support urls, but with a terrible looking format. Problem was the bibdesk-url ... had to rename the attribute to url.