BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ ¿Clickable URLs from \url, \howpublished or what in Apacite?

[huxor]

Hey!

What do you recommend, how should I proceed, when I'd like to have URL's included automatically (and clickable) in an document (using apacite-package produced APA style)? Here's a style example:

Fredrickson, B. L. (2000, March 7). Cultivating positive emotions to
optimize health and well-being. Prevention & Treatment, 3, Article
0001a. Retrieved November 20, 2000, from http://journals.apa.org/
prevention/volume3/pre0030001a.html


What I've got is the BiBTeX export of my http://www.citeulike.org bibliography.

Citeulike inserts the URL in the \url tag. That seems at least somewhat a common practice. Should I suggest Citeulike (my favourite btw) to improve their BiBTeX- export-format to be compatible with apacite package? They do have the appropriate information in the following fields:

posted-at = {2009-01-27 12:49:06},

url = {http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/ ... graphy/43/},

OR, should I proceed with apacite or with some other latex package?

Or, should I, for example, write a script to parse and convert posted-at and url tags in the .bib as apacite-proper howpublished tag?

The last option is propably the most feasible for me but a bit ugly, however. Or maybe the user feedback to citeulike would be the best option. Or should I procceed with learning TeX and change the apacite or create a new package?

Any comments?

[Chan]

Use the url package

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\usepackage{url}
 
 
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Then you can insert the \url command in your bib entry. For example,

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@misc{ACS,
    author = {{\bibcorporate{U.S. Census Bureau}}},
    year = {2006},
    title = {{A}merican {C}ommunity {S}urvey, {S}chool {D}istrict {D}emographic {S}ystem},
    howpublished = {Retrieved February 4, 2009, from National Center for Education Statistics: \url{http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/acs06/index.aspx}}
}
 
 
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[huxor]

Thanks for your hint!

The url package seems to do exactly what I want. Strangely I missed that one until now.

The next step ist to parse the source data correctly.

I created a thread in Feature requests of CiteUlike's Forum [1]. Feel free to quote & comment that. These discussions are inter-linked.

[1] CiteUlike: Group CiteULike - discussion | Feature requests