[OS X TeX] URLs in bibliographic entries

[Claus Gerhardt]

You can either add a new field or use the existing note field but in  
any case you should use hyperref and add the reference by using its  
command \href{}{} like in

\href{http://arXiv.org/abs/hep-th/0304033}{arXiv:hep-th/0304033}

To avoid any hiccups when hyperref is not loaded and also to calm  
bibtex replace the preamble section in the chicago.bst by

FUNCTION {begin.bib}

{ preamble$ empty$
     'skip$
     { preamble$ write$ newline$ }
   if$
     "\providecommand{\href}[2]{#2}"
         write$ newline$
   "\begin{thebibliography}{}" write$ newline$
}


EXECUTE {begin.bib}

EXECUTE {init.state.consts}

ITERATE {call.type$}

FUNCTION {end.bib}
{ newline$
   "\end{thebibliography}" write$ newline$
}

I copied the whole preamble section with the new addition for \href  
included.

Claus

On Dec 15, 2006, at 18:31, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Dec 15, 2006, at 09:11, Nathan Paxton wrote:
>
>> 	Hi all,
>>
>> 	Another question of basic difficulty.  I've done some googling,  
>> but it's not quite clear what I need to do.
>>
>> 	I have a number of biblio entries in BibDesk that have URLs to  
>> WWW versions of the papers I cite.  I'm using the natbib package,  
>> with a chicago.bst reference style.  How can I get the reference  
>> list to print out the URLs of the papers (which it won't do right  
>> now)?  I've seen some stuff on the url.sty package, but I can't  
>> figure out how to get that to work within my document.
>
> You'll have to modify a copy of the .bst file (rename it first).
>
> * In the beginning of the file, there should be an ENTRY list with  
> all the fields.  Add url to this.
> * Add a new function:
>
> FUNCTION {format.url}
> { url empty$
>     { "" }
>     { new.block "URL \url{" url * "}" * }
>   if$
> }
>
> this should go with other functions (e.g. format.title).
>
> * For each type that can have a url field, add the following line
>
>   format.url output
>
> at the appropriate location.
>
> This may require some experimentation, but should be enough to get  
> you started.  You'll also want to use either hyperref.sty or  
> url.sty to give you a proper \url command.
>
> hth,
> Adam
>
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