I am referring a lecture note from Andrew Sutherland, named Elliptic Curves provided on the related webpage.
I need to cite "14.Ordinary and supersingular curves" note, with the date which I refer the note and the link for the webpage, in my latex document using BibTeX. What is the most suitable Citation style and how I can type this in BibTeX file? I have used alpha style, but webpage links are not showing for that style.
Please recommend me a good reference style which support that too.
If a bibliography style (such as alpha) is sufficiently old so as not be be programmed to recognize and process a field called url, simply dump the URL-related information in the note field. I suggest you use the @misc entry type along with the natbib citation management package.
The following entry serves to refer to the totality of the lecture notes from the course in question. Make suitable adjustments if you want to create a reference to just one lecture.
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
@misc{sutherland-notes,
author = "Andrew Sutherland",
title = "{MIT Mathematics 18.783, Lecture Notes: Elliptic Curves}",
note = "URL: \url{https://math.mit.edu/classes/18.783/2015/lectures.html}.
Last visited on 2017/07/01",
year = 2015,
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hyphens,spaces]{url}
\usepackage{natbib}
\citestyle{alpha}
\bibliographystyle{alpha}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks,urlcolor=blue,citecolor=cyan} % choose suitable colors
\begin{document}
\cite{sutherland-notes}
\bibliography{mybib}
\end{document}
If using biblatex and biber is an option (cf. this post to get started), then I would recommend using the booklet or report entry types.
Per the documentation:
booklet
A book-like work without a formal publisher or sponsoring institution. Use the field howpublished to supply publishing information in free format, if applicable. The field type may be useful as well.
Required fields: author/editor, title, year/date
Optional fields: subtitle, titleaddon, language, howpublished, type, note, location, chapter, pages, pagetotal, addendum, pubstate, doi, eprint, eprintclass, eprinttype, url, urldate
report
A technical report, research report, or white paper published by a university or some other institution. Use the type field to specify the type of report. The sponsoring institution goes in the institution field.
Required fields: author, title, type, institution, year/date
Optional fields: subtitle, titleaddon, language, number, version, note, location, month, isrn, chapter, pages, pagetotal, addendum, pubstate, doi, eprint, eprintclass, eprinttype, url, urldate
A possible example for your entry could be:
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
@misc{sutherland-notes-misc,
author = "Andrew Sutherland",
title = "{Elliptic Curves}",
note = "URL: \url{https://math.mit.edu/classes/18.783/2015/lectures.html}.
Last visited on 2017/07/01",
year = 2015,
}
@booklet{sutherland-notes-booklet,
author = "Andrew Sutherland",
title = "{Elliptic Curves}",
note = "URL: \url{https://math.mit.edu/classes/18.783/2015/lectures.html}.
Last visited on 2017/07/01",
year = 2015,
}
@report{sutherland-notes-report,
author = "Andrew Sutherland",
title = "{Elliptic Curves}",
note = "URL: \url{https://math.mit.edu/classes/18.783/2015/lectures.html}.
Last visited on 2017/07/01",
year = 2015,
institution = "Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics"
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\bibliography{mybib}
\begin{document}
\cite[14. Ordinary and supersingular curve]{sutherland-notes-misc}, \cite[14. Ordinary and supersingular curve]{sutherland-notes-booklet}, \cite[14. Ordinary and supersingular curve]{sutherland-notes-report}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Note that the three entries will be displayed similarly:
