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I am trying to cite a website for my Bachelor Thesis:

@misc{ECB,
 author = {ECB},
 year = {2020},    
 title = {Open Market Operations},
 howpublished = {{Retrieved from www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/implement/omo/html/index.en.html}},
 note = {Accessed on 5 April, 2020},
}

This is how the bibliography looks like

Why is it spaced out so much? Tried several different ways of citing it but it always looks weird compared to normal citations... Any ideas?

Bernard
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rememberhthename94
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    It is spaced out because it thinks the URL is one long word and it does not know where to break it. https://www.ctan.org/pkg/url might help... – Thruston Apr 14 '20 at 07:49
  • Also I think this question has some useful answers. – Thruston Apr 14 '20 at 07:53
  • @Thruston oh thanks! Ive looked through other threads but did not get it with the \url command. Figured out my document was missing the package - I am still a latex noob and got a template from my Prof :D thx – rememberhthename94 Apr 14 '20 at 08:45
  • You should use the \@online entry type rather than \@misc and the url + urldate fields. – Bernard Apr 14 '20 at 09:51
  • If you are using biblatex as your tagging suggests, it would be better not to give the URL in the howpublished field and access date in the note field. Instead you would give the URL in the url field and the access date in the urldate field: url = {http://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/implement/omo/html/index.en.html}, urldate = {2020-04-05}, – moewe Apr 14 '20 at 15:58
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    If your are not using biblatex the best course of action depends on your bibliography style (strictly speaking that is also true with biblatex, but since all common biblatex styles support url and urldate it's not relevant here). Some newer styles support a url field, but with some older styles the only choice is howpublished. In case your style only supports hopwublished something like howpublished = {Retrieved from \url{http://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/implement/omo/html/index.en.html}}, helps typeset the URL correctly (load \usepackage{url} or \usepackage{hyperref}). – moewe Apr 14 '20 at 16:22

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