BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Citing presentations

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Hello everyone,

I would like to know what would be the best way to cite a talk at a conference without proceedings or a lecture.

I've searched through the internet and the BiBTeX documentation, but there seems to be no standard entry type to handle presentations. When creating a custom bibliography style with makebst/merlin, it seems to be possible to add a non-standard "presentation" type, but I don't know how to do this.

I would minimally need for author, year, month, day, title, conference name, place to be output.

Any suggestion about the standard way to implement this or your own solutions will be appreciated.

[kaiserkarl13]

This may work, though it may also confuse BibTeX (since BibTeX expects some fields that aren't there, such as page numbers). However, BibTeX often proceeds without these fields, simply not including that text, so you may be alright (it works for at least one database!):

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@inproceedings{key,
    author  = "Obama, B.",
    title   = "State of the Union Address",
    publisher = "Presented as the 220th Annual State of the Union Address, Washington, DC",
    year    = 2010
}