Russell Davie wrote: > now is this a fault with bibtex, or latex? or what?
It's a bibtex bug AFAIK. It seems to occur when a long URL has to be broken across lines. > and how can this be automatically done?, so a then a file of medline bibtex > url refs don't have to be edited I'm sure it can with an appropriate script. Ask the sed masters on this list. Jürgen