BibTeX is a tool and a file format used for managing citations and bibliographies in LaTeX documents. Since citing websites requires a hack, there are a few things to remember when referencing a website in a BibTeX document. To simplify matters, BibLaTeX was developed.
Overleaf and R Studio are just two of the many online publishing platforms that CiteDrive synchronizes with automatically. In order to facilitate citing academic articles in, say, an Overleaf project, we provide a browser extension that lets you do so without leaving the browser and in the proper BibTeX format. The extension can also be used to save web pages in BibLaTeX format, which will record the page’s title, URL, and access date automatically.
The basic format for citing a website in BibTeX is as follows:
@misc title = , url = , author = , year = , note = >In this format, the label is a unique identifier for the citation, the title is the title of the website, the url is the website’s URL, the author is the name of the website’s author (if known), the year is the year the website was published (if known), and the note is the date you accessed the website.
We advise using BibLaTeX because it automatically supports the ‘@online’ entry type and requires no additional configuration for use. The fields “url” and “urldate” are where you can put in the URL and the date you accessed it.
@online title = , author = , year = , url = , urldate = >To include the citation in your document, you can use the \cite command followed by the citation’s label like this: \cite
To include the full reference for the website at the end of your document, you can use the \bibliography command, followed by the name of your BibTeX file (without the .bib extension), like this: \bibliography