Insert # in bibtex entry?

Question

How do i insert a # in a bibtex entry.. seem to be impossible it does not recognize the \# or # as simple hashtag (#)..

@ONLINE {DMA,
    title = "AR# 57550 - Example Designs - Designing with the AXI DMA core",
    month = "aug",
    year  = "2015",
    url   = "http://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/57550.html"
}

Note that if the hash is followed by text, e.g., #text, it won't work.Use \#{}text to separate the hash from the text. — Denis Cousineau, Aug 26 '20 at 21:23

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered May 30 '16 at 14:51

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You can try to use url package and type

\url{\#}

answered May 30 '16 at 14:51

Oleg Soloviev

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This is using a sledgehammer. Just \# is sufficient. – egreg May 31 '16 at 07:41
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@egreg It didn't worked for BibTeX neither for the Lamda nor for me – Oleg Soloviev May 31 '16 at 08:43
@OlegSoloviev From the comment http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/312226/insert-in-bibtex-entry#comment759691_312226 I think \# worked for lambda (beware that the system has its difficulties in displaying the backslash) – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz May 31 '16 at 13:00
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@samcarter that comment was about the first edits of the question: http://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/312226/revisions – Oleg Soloviev May 31 '16 at 14:18
the MWE from egreg's answer works perfectly for me; I don't know why I haven't obtained the same result yesterday. – Oleg Soloviev May 31 '16 at 14:19

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered May 31 '16 at 08:55

Here's a minimal example:

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@ONLINE {DMA,
    title = "AR\# 57550 - Example Designs - Designing with the AXI DMA core",
    month = aug,
    year  = "2015",
    url   = "http://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/57550.html"
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

\begin{document}

\cite{DMA}

\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

As usual in examples, I use the filecontents* environment; natbib is just for convenience.

Insert # in bibtex entry?

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