Hyperref Citing – Citation Call-Out with Hyperlink to Manually-Input Bibitem

Question

I have manually created all entries in the bibliography section. Now, I would like to create authoryear-style citation call-outs and hyperlink the citation call-outs to the entries in the bilbiography.

Can someone help me to do this?

I use the following packages:

\usepackage{hyperref}

An example of how I want it to look like

\begin{document}

Text here (Author A, 2000)




\begin{thebibliography}


\bibitem{example} Author A (2000), Example 1



\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

So: I want that I can click on ''(Author A, 2000)'' and then be redirected in the pdf to the Reference.

Answer 1

To achieve your objective, you should

• load the natbib package with the option authoyear,

• load the hyperref package, and

• use the optional argument of the \bibitem macro to provide the pieces of information that are needed to form the authoryear-style citation callouts. Note that there must not be a space between the author's name (or authors' names) and the year in the optional argument of \bibitem:

  \bibitem[Smith(2000)]{example} Smith, J. (2000), Example 1.
  

With such a setup, it's possible to use both the \citep and \citet macros of the natbib package.

A final remark: Just because it's possible to use this method doesn't mean it's advisable to do so. In the medium and long term, you'll do yourself a huge favor by learning how to use BibTeX and/or biblatex to handle the chores related to creating a formatted bibliography and generating appropriately formatted citation call-outs.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,allcolors=blue]{hyperref}

\begin{document}

Text here  \citep{example}  % for parenthetic-style citation call-out

More text, \citet{example}  % for text-style citation call-out

\begin{thebibliography}{99}

\bibitem[Smith(2000)]{example} Smith, J. (2000), Example 1.

\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}