How to add url access date to model5-names.bst (elsarticle.cls) for bibliography?

Question

Header of my LaTeX file:

\documentclass[review]{elsarticle}

\bibliographystyle{model5-names}\biboptions{authoryear}

\begin{document}

My Paper

\bibliography{mybibfile01}

\end{document}

I need help to add the "URL accessed on date" for @online{} type bibliography entries.

I checked this question, but this is not exactly what I need.

There are quite a few questions about adding "URL accessed on" dates, but I don't want to tinker with my current setup too much. I was wondering if this can be done by editing the model5-names.bst file. Can anyone please help ?

Answer 1

The simplest (if not the most elegant) solution is to include the URL access date in a note field of the bibliography entry, with for example

note = {accessed on 2019-08-29}

This method should work with both bibtex and biblatex (for common style definitions).