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I'm using Tufte document classes, in which citations appear as sidenotes consisting of the full bibliography entry, using (I believe) \bibentry. Many of my bibliography entries contain URLs (and I want them there) but I don't want those URLs to appear in the citations.

Is there a way to omit URLs from such citations but keep them in the bibliography?

Example of citation with unwanted URL

\documentclass[]{tufte-handout}

\begin{document}

This,\cite{Sarukkai:2005} includes the URL for the citation, which I don't want; thought I do want it in the bibliography.

\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}
\bibliography{References}

\end{document}

@article{Sarukkai:2005,
author = {Sarukkai, S},
title = {{Revisiting the 'unreasonable effectiveness' of mathematics}},
journal = {Current science},
year = {2005},
url = {http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/feb102005/415.pdf},
}
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This is possible by modifying the bst-file.

Copy the file unsrtnat.bst in your working folder. I recommand to rename the file maybe something like MYunsrtnat.bst. At line 285 of MYunsrtnat.bst you find the definition of the url output. 

FUNCTION {format.url}
{ url empty$
    { "" }
    { new.block "URL \url{" url * "}" * }
  if$
}

Change this definition as follow:

FUNCTION {format.url}
{ url empty$
    { "" }
    { new.block "\urlname{URL} \url{" url * "}" * }
  if$
}

After this changing you can use the following example. There commands \urlname and \url gobble their argument. Before the bibliography is printed to commands are set to 

\renewcommand*{\urlname}[1]{#1}
\renewcommand*{\url}[1]{\texttt{#1}}

Here the example:

\documentclass[]{tufte-handout}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{References.bib}
@article{Sarukkai:2005,
author = {Sarukkai, S},
title = {{Revisiting the 'unreasonable effectiveness' of mathematics}},
journal = {Current science},
year = {2005},
url = {http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/feb102005/415.pdf},
}


\end{filecontents}
\providecommand*{\urlname}[1]{}
\renewcommand*{\url}[1]{}
\begin{document}
This,\cite{Sarukkai:2005} includes the URL for the citation, which I don't want; thought I do want it in the bibliography.

\renewcommand*{\urlname}[1]{#1}
\renewcommand*{\url}[1]{\texttt{#1}}
\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}
\bibliography{References}

\end{document}

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  • Excellent. In the interim I've moved to biblatex. Is there a similar approach I can use there? – orome Mar 4 '12 at 16:52
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    @raxacoricofallapatorius: Yes. The you have the possiblity DeclareFieldFormat{url}{} – Marco Daniel Mar 4 '12 at 17:00
  • That gets rid of URLs everywhere (as the option url=false would). Is there a way to just exclude them from citations and not the bibliography? – orome Mar 4 '12 at 18:03
  • The same trick. You can also use AtEveryCite. But I think it's a new question ;-) – Marco Daniel Mar 4 '12 at 18:06
  • Agreed. – orome Mar 4 '12 at 18:15

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