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Is it possible to create a link to a particular bibliography item?
I'm hoping for something like:
This \hyperref[MyKey]{link} takes you to the same place as \cite{MyKey}.
A full (non-working) MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks,allcolors=red]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
This \hyperref[MyKey]{link} takes you to the same place as \cite{MyKey} does.
\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{MyKey} Anne Author, Thoughts, 3001.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
A simple solution is to set a \hypertarget in the bibliography item. The syntax is quite simple: Create the target with
\hypertarget{MyTargetKey}{}
and create a link to the target with
\hyperlink{MyTargetKey}{link text}
Everything put together:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks,allcolors=red]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
This \hyperlink{MyTargetKey}{link} takes you to the same
place as \cite{MyKey} does.
\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{MyKey} \hypertarget{MyTargetKey}{} Anne Author, Thoughts, 3001.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
If you work e.g. with BibLaTeX, this gets even more hackish, but still works. You can set the target in the author field.
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@BOOK{MyKey,
AUTHOR = {Author, \hypertarget{MyKeyH}{Anne}},
TITLE = {Thoughts},
YEAR = {3001},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks,allcolors=red]{hyperref}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
This \hyperlink{MyKeyH}{link} takes you to the same place as \cite{MyKey} does.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
This is not a particularly nice solution, but I am not aware of a direct, elegant way.
latexmake) or style sheets but pdftex vomits if I place the \hypertarget on the author's last name (Author rather than Anne in your example). Otherwise this is solving my problem.
Jan 3, 2016 at 20:55
biblatex there is no need for the hack: How to make a word clickable to send you to a certain reference in the bibliography?
I have hyperref and I use BibTeX with keys like:
@BOOK{MyKey,
AUTHOR = {theName, theFirstName},
TITLE = {Thoughts},
YEAR = {3001},
}
In my template at least, \hyperlink{cite.MyKey}{link} is enough to make a link work.
I might make a MWE later, but in the meantime maybe this can help someone.
\hyperlink{cite.#2}{\citeyear{#2}} but the link took me to the first page rather than the bibliography entry. I really don't want to use \hypertarget, how can I fix this?
\usepackage{hyperref}
makes links work in the introductory example like magic ("\cite{dirac}" becomes a link).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{sample.bib}
\begin{document}
Einstein's journal paper \cite{einstein} and Dirac's
book \cite{dirac} are physics-related items.
\clearpage
\printbibliography
\end{document}
This all works with the default sample.bib file.
