How to add a URL to a LaTeX bibtex file?

Question

I'm using bibtex for my bibliography in LaTeX. I have some URL's I need to cite in the paper. How do I add URLs into the .bib file?

A typical section in my .bib file looks like this:

@conference{eigenfacepaper,
  title={{Face recognition using eigenfaces}},
  author={Turk, M. and Pentland, A.},
  booktitle={Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  volume={591},
  year={1991}
}

I tried some misc sections in bibtex but they don't show up in my document.

Answer 1

The last time I cited a URL, I used a BibTeX entry of the following form:

@misc{bworld,
  author = {Ingo Lütkebohle},
  title = {{BWorld Robot Control Software}},
  howpublished = "\url{http://aiweb.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/content/bworld-robot-control-software/}",
  year = {2008}, 
  note = "[Online; accessed 19-July-2008]"
}

If that does not show up, then it might indeed be a problem with your BibTeX style (or you forgot to \usepackage{url} or \usepackage{hyperref} in your main .tex file).

Answer 2

You need to

 \usepackage{url}

and then

 howpublished={\url{http://my.url.com/}},

Answer 3

Depends what BibTeX style you're using. In the ordinary ones I usually use

note={\url{http://...}}

in biblatex (and natbib too, I think), you can just write

url={http://...}

Answer 4

To use url with a plain bibliography style you can use this format:

@misc{Doe:2009:Online,
author = {author},
title = {Title of Citation},
year = {2010 (accessed December 7, 2014)}, 
howpublished = "\url{http://www.myurl.com}"}

Additionally you need to add the url package

\usepackage{url}

If you want to use the url attribute in you need to use natbib because standard bibstyles (such as plain) will not typeset the url key contents of the individual entries; it is required to use one of natbib's own entries, e.g. plainnat.

For example

@ONLINE{Doe:2009:Online,
author = {Doe, Ringo},
title = {This is a test entry of type {@ONLINE}},
month = jun,
year = {2009},
url = {http://www.test.org/doe/}
}

and the document

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{biblatex}
\bibliography{test.bib}

\title{BibTeX Website citatations with the \textsf{biblatex}~package}
\date{}

\begin{document}

\maketitle
\nocite{Doe:2009:Online}
\printbibliography

\end{document}

Source: http://nschloe.blogspot.ro/2009/06/bibtex-how-to-cite-website_21.html

Answer 5

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you are trying to reference websites and not articles in a journal, for instance. And, having placed said references in a misc entry, they don't show up when you reference them. If that is correct, then the problem is your bibliography style (bst file) does not have an entry in it for dealing with a misc type. I would suggest that you use biblatex as it highly customizable and includes an online entry type specifically for your purpose. Alternatively, you could use custom-bib, which will give you a custom bst file that would display a misc entry. However, I think biblatex is still your best bet.

Answer 6

The TEX FAQ used to have really good answers for TeX related questions: URLs in BibTeX bibliographies:

@misc{...,
  ...,
  howpublished = "\url{http://...}"
}