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It's cool to add a hyperlink in references like this: enter image description here

I want to know how to add the blue box in bibtex. For example, the following article's link is "ee". 

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/osdi/DeanG04,
author    = {Jeffrey Dean and
           Sanjay Ghemawat},
title     = {MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters},
booktitle = {OSDI},
year      = {2004},
ee        = {http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/tech/dean.html},
crossref  = {DBLP:conf/osdi/2004},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Loading the hyperref package and using 

url        = {http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/tech/dean.html},

gives a clickable url in your bibliography.

screenshot

alternatively you can use 

             note        = {\href{http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/tech/dean.html}{my text for the link which can break across lines}},

which gives a link which has different text from the link. I agree with @Mico- this is probably a bad idea in general for a variety of different reasons.

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Complete MWE

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: bibtex
% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
  @inproceedings{dblp,
             author = {Jeffrey Dean and
             Sanjay Ghemawat},
             title     = {MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters},
             booktitle = {OSDI},
             year      = {2004},
             note        = {\href{http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/tech/dean.html}{my text for the link which can break across lines}},
             bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
             }
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}   % bibliography
\usepackage{hyperref}

% bibliography
\bibliography{mybib}
\begin{document}

hello world \cite{dblp}

\printbibliography
\end{document}
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    ,this is a solution, but I'm wondering if this url can be hidden in paper's title. Paper's title is clickable.
    – Lijie Xu
    Mar 4, 2013 at 2:48
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    @LijieXu - Unless you can be absolutely certain that your paper will always be read on-screen, and never from a paper copy, it's probably not a good idea to hide the actual URL from your readers' eyes.
    – Mico
    Mar 4, 2013 at 3:26
  • @LijieXu see the update :)
    – cmhughes
    Mar 4, 2013 at 3:31
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    Note that if you have tilde ~ in \href it won't work. To fix it, you can replace ~ with %7E. BTW: interesting point of view why the %7e solution really good?.
    – patryk.beza
    Jun 25, 2016 at 11:21
  • Note for future readers: Using hyperref with \url{....} can also solve issues related to underscores and tildes in urls.
    – starbeamrainbowlabs
    Apr 24, 2018 at 12:28
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Thanks for the code of @cmhughe. I rewrite it as follows:

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/osdi/DeanG04,
author    = {Jeffrey Dean and
           Sanjay Ghemawat},
title     = {\href{http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/tech/dean.html}{MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters}},
booktitle = {OSDI},
year      = {2004},
ee        = {http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/tech/dean.html},
crossref  = {DBLP:conf/osdi/2004},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}

In this way, the hyperlink effect can be achieved.

enter image description here

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    Nice solution. You can add the entry automatically using BibTool and bibtool -- 'add.field{title2="\href{%s(url)}{%s(title)}"}' test.bib -o test1.bib. See this post for details.
    – DJJ
    Sep 20, 2016 at 11:45
  • how to get the link in "In OSDI, 2004"?
    – Ka-Wa Yip
    Feb 27, 2017 at 1:11
  • @Lijie Xu the command \href{}{} does not work in the bibtex file. How can I activate it?
    – QGravity
    Jan 13, 2019 at 8:13
  • According to the official bibtex documentation ( ctan.org/pkg/bibtex ), ee is not an accepted field for inproceedings . The fact that ee appeared in your example, confused me and might confuse other people. Please consider removing it.
    – evaristegd
    May 13, 2019 at 0:52
  • I was looking for hours on how to add a website to the bibliography, and this is the unique solution that worked for me. Thanks.
    – Gaston Burrull
    Mar 14 at 8:07

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