how to make citation abbreviations clickable in LaTex?

Question

I know that citations in articles can be linked to references automatically via package hyperref.

However, consider the case where I abbreviate a reference such as "Blah and Blah (2010)" as BB10 for the rest of the article. Is there a way to also link the abbreviation to the specific reference at the end of the article?

I know that it is possible because I've seen journal editors do it. But I don't know how.

Answer 1

If you use the natbib citation management package, and if you employ a bibliography style which is (a) capable of producing authoryear-style citation call-outs and (b) compatible with the natbib package, it's straightforward to set up a "citation alias" for a given entry and to create alias-form call-outs via \citetalias and \citepalias. Furthermore, if the hyperref package is in use, these citation call-outs will automatically be made into hyperlinks to the corresponding entries in the formatted bibliography.

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
@misc{bb:10,
  author = "Albert Blah and Zebulon Blah",
  title  = "Thoughts",
  year   = 2010,
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[round,authoryear]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat} % choose a suitable bibliography style
\defcitealias{bb:10}{BB10}

\usepackage[colorlinks,allcolors=blue]{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\noindent
\citet{bb:10} (hereafter: \citetalias{bb:10}) argue that \dots
\bibliography{mybib}
\end{document}