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Often I'd like to cite an electronic version of a book. It will be by a scientific publisher, and have all the publisher, editor, etc. information, but has a URL and an accessed-on date instead of a page number. I've got to choose between @book which won't give the URL and pretend I went and got the hardcopy (Which seems unethical) and @online which misses half the information and makes it look like I used a website. Is there a way to add the accessed on date and URL to a full book entry? Or some form of hybrid style?

Example books: IUPAC gold book. CRC Handbook of Chemistry And Physics.

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    With standard biblatex styles, @books also support url and urldate fields quite admirably (of course not if you have turned them off via url=false). Actually biblatex-chicago, biblatex-apa, biblatex-ieee all seem very happy to do that as well.
    – moewe
    Apr 14, 2015 at 17:23
  • If your style for whatever reason does not support URLs you can always use the addendum, note or howpublished (if applicable, biblatex does not support howpublished for all types) fields. The biblatex-chem styles all have url=false by default, with url=true added they also support URLs. The only style that really didn't want to print a URL was mla.
    – moewe
    Apr 14, 2015 at 17:29
  • @moewe Durr, that would be it; I use biblatex-chem most of the time (achemso or rsc the rest), which would make sense. I'll try it with URL=True. Thank you.
    – Canageek
    Apr 14, 2015 at 18:30
  • So what do we do about this question?
    – moewe
    Apr 14, 2015 at 18:34

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biblatex's standard styles have no trouble (and no scruple) at all to display a url and urldate for @books or any other entry type.

This feature can be turned off via url=off, in which case only @online entries retain their URLs (see §3.1.2.2 Style-specific [Preamble Options], p. 55 of the biblatex documentation).

Most custom styles available from CTAN work similarly (biblatex-chicago, biblatex-apa, biblatex-ieee, biblatex-nature, philosophy-modern), some have url=false pre-set (the biblatex-chem family seems to be an example), so you will have to issue url=true to see the URL. The only style I found that wouldn't print URLs for @books was biblatex-mla.

In case your style does not support URL fields, you can always go for addendum and note, or even howpublished (biblatex supports howpublished only for some entry types).

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