Latex divides URL in bibliography and web page cannot be found

Question

I get a wrong URL when I click the link in the bibliography of a PDF generated with Latex. I tried using both url and xurl packages but the error continues.

Here is the code:

@misc{understanding_encoder_resolution,
title={Understanding Encoder Resolution and Its 3 Forms},
author={US Digital},
howpublished={https://www.usdigital.com/blog/understanding-encoder-resolution-and-its-3-forms/},
year={2019},
note = {Accedido: 5-10-2022},
}

And here is the output:

This is the wrong URL I get when I click the link:

I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Loading the url or, better still, the xurl package won't do you any good unless you switch the field type from howpublished to url:

@misc{understanding_encoder_resolution,
  title={Understanding Encoder Resolution and Its 3 Forms},
  author={{US Digital}},
  url={https://www.usdigital.com/blog/understanding-encoder-resolution-and-its-3-forms/},
  year={2019},
  note = {Accedido: 5-10-2022},
}

Of course, this solution presupposes that you are employing a bibliography style that recognizes the url field type.

Incidentally, do also note that I've changed the author field to author={{US Digital}},, i.e., have employed an extra pair of curly braces. That way, you're telling BibTeX that it's dealing with a so-called "corporate" author here. This will prevent BibTeX from parsing the field as containing a given name "US" and a surname "Digital".

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Addendum: A full MWE (minimum working example) and its output:

\documentclass{article} % choose a suitable document class

% create a bib file on the fly:
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{mybib.bib}
@misc{understanding_encoder_resolution,
  title={Understanding Encoder Resolution and Its 3 Forms},
  author={{US Digital}},
  url={https://www.usdigital.com/blog/understanding-encoder-resolution-and-its-3-forms/},
  year={2019},
  note = {Accedido: 5-10-2022},
}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[round,authoryear]{natbib} % choose a suitable citation management package
\bibliographystyle{plainnat} % choose a suitable bibliography style

\usepackage{xurl}
\usepackage[colorlinks,allcolors=blue]{hyperref} % optional

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}
\bibliography{mybib}

\end{document}