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Users of Biblatex can use an @online entry type. From the Biblatex documentation:

online: An online resource. author, editor, and year are omissible in terms of §2.3.2. This entry type is intended for sources such as web sites which are intrinsically online resources. Note that all entry types support the url field. For example, when adding an article from an online journal, it may be preferable to use the @article type and its url field.

Required fields: author/editor, title, year/date, url

Optional fields: subtitle, titleaddon, language, version, note, organization, date, month, year, addendum, pubstate, urldate

Here is a reasonable example:

@online{MO22350,
  title = {What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics  papers?},
  titleaddon = {(answer)},
  author = {François G. Dorais},
  date = {2010-04-23},
  version = {1},
  organization = {MathOverflow},
  url = {http://mathoverflow.net/a/22350},
  urldate = {2014-04-19},
  nameaddon = {http://mathoverflow.net/users/2000},
}

Since MathOverflow user names and titles may contain special characters, use the package inputenc with option utf8 before using the biblatex package in the document preamble, or manually replace special characters by appropriate encoding (e.g. ç by {\c c}). (Also consider using Biber instead of BibTeX.)

The nameaddon field is not used by standard bibliographic styles but that is what it is used for in styles that do use it; a note field could be used with similar effect with greater compatibility.

Sample output for the entry above:

With biblatex options backend=biber,style=authoryear.

Users of the biblatex package can use an @online entry type. From the biblatex documentation:

online: An online resource. author, editor, and year are omissible in terms of §2.3.2. This entry type is intended for sources such as web sites which are intrinsically online resources. Note that all entry types support the url field. For example, when adding an article from an online journal, it may be preferable to use the @article type and its url field.

Required fields: author/editor, title, year/date, url

Optional fields: subtitle, titleaddon, language, version, note, organization, date, month, year, addendum, pubstate, urldate

Here is a reasonable example:

@online{MO22350,
  title = {What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics  papers?},
  titleaddon = {(answer)},
  author = {François G. Dorais},
  date = {2010-04-23},
  version = {1},
  organization = {MathOverflow},
  url = {http://mathoverflow.net/a/22350},
  urldate = {2014-04-19},
  nameaddon = {http://mathoverflow.net/users/2000},
}

Since MathOverflow user names and titles may contain special characters, use the package inputenc with option utf8 before using the biblatex package in the document preamble, or manually replace special characters by appropriate encoding (e.g. ç by {\c c}). (Also consider using Biber instead of BibTeX as a backend.)

The nameaddon field is not used by standard bibliographic styles but that is what it is used for in styles that do use it; a note field could be used with similar effect with greater compatibility.

Sample output for the entry above:

With biblatex options backend=biber,style=authoryear.

Users of Biblatex can use an @online entry type. From the Bibtex documentation:

online: An online resource. author, editor, and year are omissible in terms of §2.3.2. This entry type is intended for sources such as web sites which are intrinsically online resources. Note that all entry types support the url field. For example, when adding an article from an online journal, it may be preferable to use the @article type and its url field.

Required fields: author/editor, title, year/date, url

Optional fields: subtitle, titleaddon, language, version, note, organization, date, month, year, addendum, pubstate, urldate

Here is a reasonable example:

@online{MO22350,
  title = {What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics  papers?},
  titleaddon = {(answer)},
  author = {François G. Dorais},
  date = {2010-04-23},
  version = {1},
  organization = {MathOverflow},
  url = {http://mathoverflow.net/a/22350},
  urldate = {2014-04-19},
  nameaddon = {http://mathoverflow.net/users/2000},
}

Since MathOverflow user names and titles may contain special characters, use the package inputenc with option utf8 before using the biblatex package in the document preamble, or manually replace special characters by appropriate encoding (e.g. ç by {\c c}). (Also consider using Biber instead of BibTeX.)

The nameaddon field is not used by standard bibliographic styles but that is what it is used for in styles that do use it; a note field could be used with similar effect with greater compatibility.

Sample output for the entry above:

With biblatex options backend=biber,style=authoryear.

Users of Biblatex can use an @online entry type. From the Biblatex documentation:

online: An online resource. author, editor, and year are omissible in terms of §2.3.2. This entry type is intended for sources such as web sites which are intrinsically online resources. Note that all entry types support the url field. For example, when adding an article from an online journal, it may be preferable to use the @article type and its url field.

Required fields: author/editor, title, year/date, url

Optional fields: subtitle, titleaddon, language, version, note, organization, date, month, year, addendum, pubstate, urldate

Here is a reasonable example:

@online{MO22350,
  title = {What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics  papers?},
  titleaddon = {(answer)},
  author = {François G. Dorais},
  date = {2010-04-23},
  version = {1},
  organization = {MathOverflow},
  url = {http://mathoverflow.net/a/22350},
  urldate = {2014-04-19},
  nameaddon = {http://mathoverflow.net/users/2000},
}

Since MathOverflow user names and titles may contain special characters, use the package inputenc with option utf8 before using the biblatex package in the document preamble, or manually replace special characters by appropriate encoding (e.g. ç by {\c c}). (Also consider using Biber instead of BibTeX.)

The nameaddon field is not used by standard bibliographic styles but that is what it is used for in styles that do use it; a note field could be used with similar effect with greater compatibility.

Sample output for the entry above:

With biblatex options backend=biber,style=authoryear.

Users of Biblatex can use an @online entry type. From the Bibtex documentation:

online: An online resource. author, editor, and year are omissible in terms of §2.3.2. This entry type is intended for sources such as web sites which are intrinsically online resources. Note that all entry types support the url field. For example, when adding an article from an online journal, it may be preferable to use the @article type and its url field.

Required fields: author/editor, title, year/date, url

Optional fields: subtitle, titleaddon, language, version, note, organization, date, month, year, addendum, pubstate, urldate

Here is a reasonable example:

@online{MO22350,
  title = {What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics  papers?},
  author = {François G. Dorais},
  date = {2010-04-23},
  version = {1},
  organization = {MathOverflow},
  url = {http://mathoverflow.net/a/22350},
  urldate = {2014-04-19},
  nameaddon = {http://mathoverflow.net/users/2000},
}

Since MathOverflow user names and titles may contain special characters, use the package inputenc with option utf8 before using the biblatex package in the document preamble, or manually replace special characters by appropriate encoding (e.g. ç by {\c c}). (Also consider using Biber instead of BibTeX.)

The nameaddon field is not used by standard bibliographic styles but that is what it is used for in styles that do use it; a note field could be used with similar effect with greater compatibility.

Users of Biblatex can use an @online entry type. From the Bibtex documentation:

online: An online resource. author, editor, and year are omissible in terms of §2.3.2. This entry type is intended for sources such as web sites which are intrinsically online resources. Note that all entry types support the url field. For example, when adding an article from an online journal, it may be preferable to use the @article type and its url field.

Required fields: author/editor, title, year/date, url

Optional fields: subtitle, titleaddon, language, version, note, organization, date, month, year, addendum, pubstate, urldate

Here is a reasonable example:

@online{MO22350,
  title = {What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics  papers?},
  titleaddon = {(answer)},
  author = {François G. Dorais},
  date = {2010-04-23},
  version = {1},
  organization = {MathOverflow},
  url = {http://mathoverflow.net/a/22350},
  urldate = {2014-04-19},
  nameaddon = {http://mathoverflow.net/users/2000},
}

Since MathOverflow user names and titles may contain special characters, use the package inputenc with option utf8 before using the biblatex package in the document preamble, or manually replace special characters by appropriate encoding (e.g. ç by {\c c}). (Also consider using Biber instead of BibTeX.)

The nameaddon field is not used by standard bibliographic styles but that is what it is used for in styles that do use it; a note field could be used with similar effect with greater compatibility.

Sample output for the entry above:

With biblatex options backend=biber,style=authoryear.