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Add “Retrieved”, “Last accessed” or similar information to authoryear in biblatex

I use JabRef 2.8b2 to organize my bibliography references. I used the latex makebst command to create a custom bibliography style (uploaded to pastebin.com). The custom style produces the following output.

Example reference with my custom style

However, I would like to add the access date to the URL like masson asked before. I imagine that the style could read the date from the timestamp field of the corresponding *.bib file. Here is the plain section from the *.bib file for the aformentioned example output.

@MISC{obama-opengov,
  author = {Barack Obama},
  title = {Transparency and Open Government},
  howpublished = {Website},
  month = {January},
  year = {2009},
  note = {Verified via archive.org},
  timestamp = {2012.03.28},
  url = {http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/}
}

Question:
How can I add something like Last accessed at 12-04-04 to the style? Did I miss a question in makebst to customize it?

I am not insisting on my bib style if you can recommend another with a similar output. The optimal output would look something like this:

[5] Barack Obama: Transparency and Open Government. Website (January 2009). 
    URL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/. 
    Verified via archive.org. Last accessed: 2012-04-04.

Further unsucessful attempts:

I tried to use the mla-good.bst and mla-goodURL.bst linked in massons' question. I also tried to manually modify them as suggested. However, the date does not print although I added values to the urldate field via JabRef. I also tried to replace the fieldname with timestamp which did not work either.

Second, I tried natdin.bst by Stefan Macke who uses the lastchecked variable for the same purpose. Same result.

After all, I cannot print any date. Further, I cannot see a lastchecked field in JabRef. My version of JabRef writes the current date at which I add the entry to the database automatically to field timestamp. Therefore, I would prefer to use this field.

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  • you note that "masson" has asked before; in that case, he was using a bst that was generally available. it would be easy enough to provide you with general information about how to do this job, but without access to your .bst it's not possible to produce (reliable) "detailed instructions" (would general instructions be useful for you?) – wasteofspace Apr 04 '12 at 11:11
  • @wasteofspace I linked my .bst in the beginning of my post. – JJD Apr 04 '12 at 11:46
  • @JJD: Is biblatex an option? – Marco Daniel Apr 09 '12 at 09:05
  • @MarcoDaniel Sure. If I can produce the desired output with it. – JJD Apr 09 '12 at 11:37
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    @JJD: A small example is given here: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/51079/add-retrieved-last-accessed-or-similar-information-to-authoryear-in-biblate/51082#51082 – Marco Daniel Apr 09 '12 at 11:54
  • @MarcoDaniel Thank you. I trying to integrate biblatex in my project. Still have some difficulties to add the settings to the ClassicThesis project. – JJD Apr 09 '12 at 14:24
  • @JJD: Can we close (delete this question? – Marco Daniel Apr 13 '12 at 09:27
  • The alleged duplicate is about biblatex, this question seems to be about makebst+bibtex. – krlmlr Sep 10 '15 at 12:43

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