How can I use BibTeX to cite a web page?

Question

I'm looking to cite a number of web pages using bibtex and I was wondering if there was a specific template of the form @<template name here> for doing that. If you could use the following website as an example that would be great

http://web.archive.org/web/20080207010024/http://www.808multimedia.com/winnt/kernel.htm

Answer 1

A simple way of doing it in BibTeX is with a @misc entry:

@misc{WinNT,
  title = {{MS Windows NT} Kernel Description},
  howpublished = {\url{http://web.archive.org/web/20080207010024/http://www.808multimedia.com/winnt/kernel.htm}},
  note = {Accessed: 2010-09-30}
}

You should also perhaps include an author if you know it. And remember to load a package such as hyperref or url.

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If you are using BibLaTeX there is an @online entry type:

@online{WinNT,
  author = {MultiMedia LLC},
  title = {{MS Windows NT} Kernel Description},
  year = 1999,
  url = {http://web.archive.org/web/20080207010024/http://www.808multimedia.com/winnt/kernel.htm},
  urldate = {2010-09-30}
}

Answer 2

Hm, it would seem that it isn't possible to cite webpages directly, but there does seem to be a workaround using the general purpose @misc field.

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=citeURL

Answer 3

I always use the defaults suggested by Wikipedia (see "BibTeX entry" at the bottom), available if you click on "cite this page".

Answer 4

I found a very good tutorial on http://www.polymtl.ca/biblio/utiliser/guide_bibtex.pdf

With this, i have modified the ieeetr.bst file to integrate the ignored tags url and urldate to all the types of entries (style was imposed for the report at the end of study).

The file was renamed (mystyle) and placed in the same local folder as the ref.bib file. Called with

\bibliographystyle{mystyle}
\bibliography{ref}

(1) add the new entries :

ENTRY
  { address
...
    url
    urldate
  }
  {}
  { label }

(2) add this function

FUNCTION {format.url}
{ url empty$
    { "" }
    {   
        ". \emph{Disponible}~\url{" * url * "}" *
        urldate empty$
         { "there is url but no urldate in " cite$ * warning$ }
         { 
            "~(\emph{consult\'e le} " * urldate * ")" *
         }
         if$
    }
  if$
}

(3) for all types, call the function with format.url "" output ! Example for @incollection:

FUNCTION {incollection}
{ output.bibitem
  format.authors "author" output.check
  format.title "title" output.check
  blank.sep
  crossref missing$
    { format.in.ed.booktitle "booktitle" output.check
      format.bvolume output
      format.number.series output
      format.chapter.pages output
      format.addr.pub "publisher" output.check
      format.edition output
      format.date "year" output.check
    }
    { format.incoll.inproc.crossref output.nonnull
      format.chapter.pages output
    }      
  if$
  format.url "" output 
  new.block
  note output
  fin.entry
}

I hope it can help you

Answer 5

The JabRef reference manager suggests to use the "electronic" type. So I do it like this:

@electronic{Rub1,
 author = {Rubino, Daniel},
 editor = {{Windows Phone Central}},
 title = {IE9 for Windows Phone 7: Adobe Flash, demos and development},
 url = {http://www.wpcentral.com/ie9-windows-phone-7-adobe-flash-demos-and-development-videos},
 urldate = {14.01.2013},
 originalyear = {18.02.2011}
}

In the BibTeX export of Citavi there is als the type "www". Depending on your editor you have to define the styles "electronic" and "www", so "misc" seems to be probably the safest.

But then you should use \bibliographystyle{alphadin} and do it like this:

@misc{Rub1,
 author = {Rubino, Daniel},
 editor = {{Windows Phone Central}},
 title = {IE9 for Windows Phone 7: Adobe Flash, demos and development},
 url = {http://www.wpcentral.com/ie9-windows-phone-7-adobe-flash-demos-and-development-videos},
 lastchecked = {14.01.2013},
 originalyear = {18.02.2011}
}