Show all available fields in references

Question

I'm using bibtex and I create my references with \bibliography{myref}. My question is what to do so that everything is shown. An example:

@misc{Clason,
author = {Clason,Christian},
title = {{Numerische Mathematik I}},
howpublished = {Vorlesungsskript},
url= "\url{http://www.uni-graz.at/people/clason/teaching/numa12/NuMaSkript.pdf}",
year={2012},
Institution={{Institut für Mathematik und Wissenschaliches Rechnen
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz}},
}

Do my BibTeX entry and LaTeX not show the Institution and the URL?

Answer 1

It is the bibliography style file that determines which fields of a given bib entry are shown. Some style files that show most standard fields of an entry of type @misc are plainnat, unsrtnat, and abbrevnat.

Addendum: As others have already pointed out, institution is not a standard field for bib entries of type @misc. (AFAICT, institution is recognized as a standard field only for entries of type @techreport.) BibTeX's rule for dealing with unrecognized fields is simple: they are ignored. For the entry at hand, you'll probably need to combine the information of your current howpublished and institution fields into a single, new howpublished field.

Answer 2

Which fields of a bibtex entry are shown in the bibliography is governed by the bst file you are using, that is the configuration in \bibliographystyle{<style>}. As far as I know, there is no stock bst style which would show all the fields, but you should check yourself in the examples of bibtex styles, e.g., here, or simply google "bibtex styles examples".

If you really want to show all the fields in your document, create a bst file of your liking (for all bibentry types include all fields in some order) and install it. To create a bst file, you do not necessarily have to understand the programming language of bibtex style files, try some bst file generator. E.g., one included with Bib-it seems to work and there are other.

To install a bibtex file, put your bst file into $HOME/texmf/bibtex/bst/ and rerun texhash. See also here, or google around.

Answer 3

In general, not every entry type (here: misc) supports every field (here: institution); the list of required and optional fields can be found in the bibtex documentation. If you need to change this, I would second the recommendation to switch to biblatex instead of hacking bibtex (although this might not be feasible if a deadline looms).

This does not address the question as posed, but here's a solution for the concrete problem: Since misc does not provide the institution field, I would just put that information into the howpublished field and select the plainurl (or abbrvurl, alphaurl, unsrturl) bibliographystyle. You also don't need the \url command, as this is automatically added.

@misc{Clason,
    author = {Clason, Christian},
    title = {{Numerische Mathematik I}},
    howpublished = {Vorlesungsskript, Institut f\"ur Mathematik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Karl-Franzens-Universit\"at Graz},
    url = {http://www.uni-graz.at/people/clason/teaching/numa12/NuMaSkript.pdf},
    year = {2012}
}

The plainurl etc. styles also add the lastchecked field, which can be used to give the date when you last verified the page was there.