How to add note before URL in a webpage citation?

Question

I want to get online accessed 19-July-2020 before the URL. Currently it's coming after the URL. The MWE is -
RequirePackage{filecontents}
begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
@misc{citekey,
    title = {Road accidents in bangladesh - Wikipedia},
    note = {Online accessed 19-July-2020},
    howpublished =
    {retrieved from: url {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road{_}accidents{_}in{_}bangladesh}}
}
end{filecontents}

documentclass{report}

usepackage{url}
usepackage{cite}

begin{document}
Example citation cite{citekey}

bibliography{mybib}
bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}

end{document}

Is there any way to define the term retrieved from: which I am adding before every url to show it in the reference.  I don't want to write it everytime before every url in every howpublished.

Mico · Answer

Since you're using the IEEEtran bibliography style, you could make use of the fact that it recognizes a field called url.  A happy side-effect of changing the howpublished field name to url (as well as deleting the "retrieved from:" prefix and removing the url{...} "wrapper") is that the contents of the note field will no longer be placed last.

documentclass{report}
begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{mybib.bib}
@misc{citekey,
    title = {How to add a {URL} to a {LaTeX} bibtex file},
    note  = {Accessed online 19-July-2020},
    url   = {https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/35977/how-to-add-a-url-to-a-latex-bibtex-file}
}
end{filecontents}

usepackage{xurl}
usepackage{cite}
bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}

begin{document}
Example citation cite{citekey}
bibliography{mybib}
end{document}

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