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I am sure you have encountered with the following question, so in advance I would be thankful to your help.

I have created a bib file, and one of the my reference is an article on the web which I would like it to make a hyperlink reference, i.e I want to be shown in the way that if I click on it, it goes to the web page.

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And where is the question ;-) – Marco Daniel Sep 24 '11 at 18:45

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I'm not sure if I understand your question fully. However, as you appear to be using hyperref, why don't you provide a note or url field (or whatever field type is most appropriate for your bibliographic entry) that contains something like

"Available online at \url{http://www.mysite.mycountry/xyz.html}"

or, if you want to to use the \href command,

"Available online at \href{http://www.mysite.mycountry/xyz.html}{this site}"

Addendum: Please note that this solution works with both bibtex and biblatex. However, far more elegant solutions are available with biblatex. See for instance, on pp.8 f. of the biblatex manual, a discussion of the entry type online, "intended for sources such as web sites which are intrinsicly online resources." Also, all biblatex entry types support the field url.

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biblatex has features to generate text for qualifying URLs, though I'm not certain the biblatex tag was applied correctly here... – Audrey Sep 24 '11 at 21:47
@Audrey: I don't think that my answer applies only to biblatex. For BibTeX entries of the @unpublished type, for instance, most .bst files will print out the contents of the note field, right? In addition, many modern .bst files (such as those that come with the natbib package) recognize the url field and will print out its contents. I'll add the tag bibtex to the question. – Mico Sep 24 '11 at 22:00
That was my point - this answer wouldn't be a good one for biblatex. The OP applied the biblatex tag, but they may have just mixed it up with bibtex. – Audrey Sep 24 '11 at 22:01
@Audrey -- thanks for the follow-up, I now get your point. By the way, my answer mentions a field of type url, so I don't think it's not a "good answer" for users of biblatex... For what it's worth, I had actually assumed all along that the biblatex tag didn't mean that it applied only to biblatex... – Mico Sep 24 '11 at 22:03
Thank you, It worked. – user11112 Sep 24 '11 at 22:25
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