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I'm being asked to put the url field in a new line after the reference information. Is there a way to do this using IEEEtran?

Edit: Noting the initial suggestions, you can find the idea of the task using the following images:

What I would like is the url to be in a new line like this image:

Objective

And I have cases like this one:

Challenge

Using the field of note instead of url like this:

note = {\ \href{http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6315362&isnumber=6314593}{http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=\&arnumber=6315362\&isnumber=6314593}}

I have: Attempt

It looks like what I want but I would still like find a different approach, mainly to replace the comma after the year for a period.

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    Welcome to TeX.SE! Please post a minimum working example (MWE) of what you've done so far. This would help a lot in terms of coming up with possible solutions. Commented Mar 17, 2013 at 3:30
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The IEEEtran bibtex style has an interesting mechanism for customizing the bibliography. It is documented in IEEEtran_bst_HOWTO.pdf, see IEEEtran bibtex on ctan.

You create a special entry in the bibliography file, of type @IEEEtranBSTCTL, where you can adjust various parameters for the bibliography style. Amongst these, the "text" printed before url fields is controlled by the field CTLname_url_prefix. By default it is "[Online]. Available:".

So one possibility is to change that text to start with the command \par, starting a new paragraph. An alternative would be \linebreak{}, which would attempt to stretch the previous line to the right margin. (The extra braces {} would be needed because af the following square bracket at [Online] in this case, which should not be interpreted as an optional argument.)

Now you need to cite this styling entry before your other citations in the main document via the special command \bstctlcite.

Here is an example:

Sample output

\documentclass{IEEEtran} \usepackage{url} \begin{document} \bstctlcite{IEEEexample:BSTcontrol} Text with citation~\cite{test}. \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran} \bibliography{IEEEabrv,ref} \end{document}

with ref.bib containing

@IEEEtranBSTCTL{IEEEexample:BSTcontrol, CTLname_url_prefix = "\par [Online]. Available:", } @InProceedings{test, author = {Chamseddine, A. and Tong Li and Youmin Zhang and Rabbath, C.-A. and Theilliol, D.}, booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC), 2012}, title = {Flatness-based trajectory planning for a quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle test-bed considering actuator and system constraints}, year = {June}, pages = {920-925}, issn = {0743-1619}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6315362&isnumber=6314593} }
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