On 19 February 2013 02:39, John Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > I seem to have gotten LyX back in action for the moment with apa6. > However am having a minor problem with a bibliography item. For some > reason it is including a URL which I don't want. > > The URL is correct, in that I did download the reference from someplace, > but I don't want it in a journal entry since it is not a website, etc and > the download time and date are not relevant. > > I am handling my references with Zotero and it is creating a nice little > bib file as I play around but why am I getting the URL in the reference. Or > perhaps more correctly --how do I turn it off? I can easily edit the > bibtex entry but I suspect a lot of my references in real life willl have > this and it might mean a lot of hand editing. > > Zotero and OpenOffice.org handle the reference correctly, BTW. > > Examples attached > > Thanks > (and to paraphrase S. Pepys "so to a late lunch". > > This is dictated by your BibTeX style. The .bst file has all the logic to deal with your .bib file - including what to parse and what not to parse, and what to show when. I have yet to find a BibTeX editor that offers a little bit of intuitive style handling as well.
If you're familiar with sed, you can manipulate your .bib file to your liking (remove the url keys so they do not get parsed by your style, or use a different style). -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
