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I'm doing some slides in beamer, and including the url and visit date in biblatex in a footnote would make it too long. Is there a way to hide these fields?

The citations in the latex file are inserted like this:

\footfullcite{some_citation}

The following is displayed:

In: arXiv:xxxx.xxxxx [cs]. Jan. 1, 2000. arXiv: xxxx.xxxxx. url: http://arxiv.org/abs/xxxx.xxxxx (visited on 01/01/2000).

I would like this instead:

In: arXiv:xxxx.xxxxx [cs]. Jan. 1, 2000. arXiv: xxxx.xxxxx.

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    Url and urldate are needed really really really badly if you want to work scientifically and wanna be taken serious. Note though, that you are citing articles, not online entries. – Johannes_B Feb 29 '16 at 15:00
  • @Johannes_B Thanks for the advice. I guess I could use \footcite and put the full bibliography at the end. But I think there still might be something in between which displays the title and author year in the footnotes. – simonzack Feb 29 '16 at 15:07
  • Does \AtEveryCitekey{\clearfield{url}\clearfield{urlyear}} what you want? See also Is there a way to prevent URLs from appearing in biblatex citations?, Excessive fields in biblatex could not be removed if using \fullcite. – moewe Feb 29 '16 at 15:27
  • Note that you probably shouldn't be using the @article entry type for works on arxive that weren't published in a journal, @online should be fine. By and large I agree with Johannes_B that URL and url date are necessary, but I would feel fine with leaving out the URL and url date for arXiv entries if you specify the exact version of the paper and the date of publishing. – moewe Feb 29 '16 at 15:39
  • @moewe That works, thanks! The works I'm citing are published in conferences so I'm using inproceedings, but I still like the arxiv versions since sometimes the conference paper is missing information I'm citing, due to the arxiv version being more frequently updated. – simonzack Feb 29 '16 at 16:22

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