How to make good bibliography with hyperlink?

Question

I have been struggling to have something like this:

1) In the text:

'It has been shown (Arnold et al., 2011) that space technology is expected to...'

2) In bibliography:

Arnold, J. P., S. J. Peter (2011), The growth of space instrumentation. Journal of Adv. Tech., 63,5565-5578.

How can I have it as above with a hyperlink on "Arnold et al., 2011" without necessarily having it as

[1] Arnold, J. P....

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I suggest to use biblatex. Below you'll find a compilable minimal example with hyperlinks and some basic formatting (autor-year-style, use of "et al." in citations).

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[style=authoryear,maxcitenames=1,maxbibnames=99]{biblatex}

% Remove "In: " before journaltitle for @article
\renewbibmacro{in:}{%
  \ifentrytype{article}{%
  }{%
    \printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}%
  }%
}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Arn11,
  author = {Arnold, J. P. and Peter, S. J.},
  year = {2011},
  title = {The growth of space instrumentation},
  journaltitle = {Journal of Adv. Tech.},
  volume = {63},
  pages = {5565--5578},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

It has been shown \autocite{Arn11} that space technology is expected to~\dots

\printbibliography

\end{document}

(The filecontents environment is only used to include some external files directly into the example, so that it compiles. It is not necessary for the solution.)