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I have generated BibTeX file from a webpage by Zotero. The format I got is:

@misc{<>,
    title = {<>},
    shorttitle = {<>},
    url = {<>},
    abstract = {<>},
    language = {<>},
    urldate = {<>},
    journal = {<>},
    author = {<>, <>},
    month = <>,
    year = {<>}
}

I saved this file as ref.bib and used it in my TeX file which looks like: 

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}

\author{<>}
\title{<>}
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\section{<>}
This document ...

This discovery\cite{<>} was extraordinary.

\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}
\bibliography{ref}

\end{document}

After compiling with PDFLaTeX & BibTeX, only the author, title, month, year have appeared. How to show all of them, especially the url and urldate of the source? Which style should I use to solve this issue? TIA N.B.: I am new in LaTeX. I'm using MikTeX and Texmaker in Windows system.

raf
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  • The ieeetr bibliography style has been around, more or less unchanged, since the early 1980s. Given that URLs were pretty much unheard of back then, it's not all that surprising that the ieeetr bibliography style doesn't do anything with fields called url and urldate. Please tell us if you're free to choose a suitable bibliography style or, alternatively, you must use a specific bibliography style. Incidentallly, if Zotero outputs a journal field for entries of type @misc, then something is very wrong with Zotero. – Mico Oct 18 '18 at 22:46
  • Yes, I am free to choose a suitable style. Please suggest me some. @Mico it's not from a journal, but from a blog post. Maybe that's why the type is @misc! – raf Oct 19 '18 at 01:24
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    In that case, try loading the apacite package (with the option natbibapa in case you like the \citet and \citep citation call-out commands) and the apacite bibliography style. Do be aware that this bibliography style generates authoryear-style citation call-outs, not numeric-style citation call-outs. (Aside: If a bibliographic entry is a blog post and hence if the entry type @misc is used, the field journal shouldn't be used under any circumstance. The journal field should be used only for the name of an academic-style journal.) – Mico Oct 19 '18 at 07:14
  • I didn't know that, @Mico. Thank you for the information. – raf Oct 19 '18 at 13:12
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    Why did you write that you were free to choose a suitable bib style when it’s not the case? – Mico Oct 19 '18 at 21:06
  • If you can't modify the style, you can probably get it to show up by adding it to the note field using something like https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/scripting/#add-accessdate-url-for-bibtex – retorquere Oct 20 '18 at 09:29
  • I am free to choose any bib style. @Mico . But I want to use a numeric-style which will show url and urdate too. which style and packages can fulfill my need? TIA – raf Oct 20 '18 at 10:58
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    @MubtasimFuad - If you must use a bibliography style that creates numeric-style citation call-outs and that doesn't sort bibliographic entries alphabetically by authors' surnames, you are not free to choose any bib style. Anyway, I'm not aware of any bib style that satisfies these requirements, while still being set up to process the fields url and urldate. Maybe somebody else does. – Mico Oct 20 '18 at 11:16
  • I think I just need to switch from BibTeX to BibLaTeX. – raf Oct 20 '18 at 18:18

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I don't know yet how to solve this issue in BibTeX.
Just for my own comport, I wanted to use a numeric-bib style which will show url and urdate too. But I couldn't find out the necessary bib style and packages to fulfill my need.
Then I saw it can be done quite easily by using the package biblatex.
Here's an example of what I did to solve the issue:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage[sorting=none]{biblatex} % use this package

\author{<>}
\title{<>}
\addbibresource{raf.bib}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\section{<>}
This document ...

This discovery\cite{<>} was extraordinary.

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc] 

\end{document}

But I couldn't do this way if I was asked to use a specific bibliography style. The submission was just for an online contest and I was free to do any style. That's why I could solve it in this way.

raf
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