Hello again! As this Semester draws to a close, I thought I'd make a quick post about links in references in LaTeX. I've discovered recently with the help of a lecturer (thank you!) how properly represent links in LaTeX references - as I've been having some issues with getting the ones with underscores _ and tildes ~ displaying correctly.

For example, if I wanted to cite the Vulkan specification, I might do this in my BibTeX file:

@Misc{Vulkan2016,
    author = {{The Khronos Vulkan Working Group}},
    title = {Vulkan 1.0.31 - A Specification},
    howpublished = {Available online: https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/xhtml/vkspec.html [Accessed 15/10/2016]},
    year = {2016},
}

This is fine, but that link isn't clickable - and if it contained any awkward characters as described above, I might get weird compilation errors! The solution is to make sure you're include hyperref in your main LaTeX file (in my report I do \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} in the top-level .tex file), and then do this:

@Misc{Vulkan2016,
    author = {{The Khronos Vulkan Working Group}},
    title = {Vulkan 1.0.31 - A Specification},
    howpublished = {Available online: \url{https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/xhtml/vkspec.html} [Accessed 15/10/2016]},
    year = {2016},
}

Problem solved! :D

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