Can I refer to a bibliographic entry with custom text rather a number

Question

I'm working on a LaTeX document on Overleaf, with a bibliography in a .bib file. Throughout the document, I'm using \cite{key} to get a numeric link to the bibliography and do not want to change that behavior.

I want to be able to refer to a bibliographic entry in specific instances in a way that allows me to use a custom text string. For example:

This will be bring me to the right bibliography entry \cite{key}
And I want this to also bring me to the right bibliography entry \hyperref[key]{Custom Text}

So far I've tried \autoref and \hyperref, but, simply put, I don't know how to link to bibliographic items like I could with sections, tables, or figures.

As of right now, my code looks like so:

\documentclass[10pt]{iopart}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{cite}
\begin{document}

Text that is cited \cite{SomeKey}

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{litreview.bib}
\end{document}

litreview.bib has a bunch of entries formatted as such:

@article{SomeKey,
  title={Title},
  author={Author},
  journal={Journal},
  year={Year},
  publisher={Publisher}
}

The output looks like:

Text that is cited [1]

I want to, somewhere else in the paper, be able to \href or \hyperref to the same spot that \cite brings me to, but with my own text rather than [1].

Is there a way to link to a specific entry of the bibliography with custom text?

Answer 1

Assuming you load hyperref (and an otherwise standard setup) you can use that hyperref sets link targets to all bibliography entries. These targets can be accessed as cite.<entrykey> with \hyperlink[cite.<entrykey>]{<link text>}.

In order to get the same link colour as normal citations, we have to resort to internal commands and end up with the following.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\citelinktext}[2]{%
  \hyper@@link[cite]{}{cite.#1}{#2}}
\makeatother

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{elk,
  author    = {Anne Elk},
  title     = {A Theory on Brontosauruses},
  year      = {1972},
  publisher = {Monthy \& Co.},
  location  = {London},
}
\end{filecontents}


\begin{document}
Lorem \cite{elk}

\citelinktext{elk}{foo}

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}