How to make my own reference for some arbitrary weblink

Question

How could I make my own reference (bibtex or other) to some arbitrary weblink like http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/anlp/slides/anlp13.pdf so that it appears under the 'References' of the PDF file generated by LaTeX.

Answer 1

For BibTeX you will need to create a MISC entry like the one below:

@MISC{doe:website,
      AUTHOR = "John Doe",
      TITLE = "the website title",
      MONTH = feb,
      YEAR = 2011,
      NOTE = "\url{http://whereever/file.ext}"
}

There are also other keys which can be used. I'm using Zotero, a Firefox Plugin, to collect my references. It produces the following BibTeX entry from e.g. this page:

@misc{_bibtex_????,
    title = {bibtex - How to make my own reference for some arbitrary weblink - {TeX} - {LaTeX} - Stack Exchange},
    url = {http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11818/how-to-make-my-own-reference-for-some-arbitrary-weblink},
    howpublished = {http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11818/how-to-make-my-own-reference-for-some-arbitrary-weblink}
}

However, whether or not and how the URL is displayed depends on your used reference style.

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If you are using BibLaTeX (note the extra 'La') then you can use the new ONLINE type:

@ONLINE{Doe:2011:Online,
  author = {Doe, John},
  title = {This is an example},
  month = feb,
  year = 2011,
  url = {http://www.test.org/doe/}
}

Answer 2

% \usepackage{hyperref}
\href{http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/anlp/slides/anlp13.pdf}{This paper}

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I had not realized that you didn't know there's a url field in many bibstyles. The four basic bibstyles (plain, unsrt, abbrev, alpha) are too old for URLs. More modern styles, like the ones provided by natbib(plainnat, unsrtnat, alphanat), and many others (e.g. ieeetrans and the ones created by custum-bib), provide a url BibTeX field.