[Tex/LaTex] multibib and links to bibliography (with hyperref, natbib)

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I'm using the multibib package but cannot get links to work with it and hyperref. Is this combination possible? A sample document follows:

If I add a \usepackage{natbib} in the preamble then links do work, but the custom labeling provided by multibib is removed. For example, without natbib the citations are [F3] and [B2] and no links. With natbib, citations are (3) and (2) and do link.

The multibib documentation (PDF) has a section (3) on how to handle packages which modify \@citex, but I am not sure how to use the information there to solve this problem.

% multibiblinktest.tex

\documentclass[10pt,letter]{article}

\usepackage[labeled,resetlabels]{multibib}
\newcites{F}{Foo}
\newcites{B}{Bar}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
  colorlinks = true,
  linkcolor=blue,   % color of internal links
  citecolor=blue,   % color of links to bibliography
  urlcolor=blue,    % color of external links
  pagebackref=true,
  implicit=false,
  bookmarks=true,
  bookmarksopen=true,
  pdfdisplaydoctitle=true
}

% \usepackage{natbib} % links work, citations not formatted by multibib...

\begin{document}

\nociteF{ref1}
\nociteF{ref2}
\nociteB{ref3}

A link to \citeF{ref4} and \citeB{ref5} goes here.

\bibliographystyleF{unsrt}
\bibliographyF{test.bib}

\bibliographystyleB{unsrt}
\bibliographyB{test.bib}

\end{document}

And the bibliography file:

% test.bib
@Article {ref1, author = Author1, title = Title1, year = 2010}
@Article {ref2, author = Author2, title = Title2, year = 2010}
@Article {ref3, author = Author3, title = Title3, year = 2010}
@Article {ref4, author = Author4, title = Title4, year = 2010}
@Article {ref5, author = Author5, title = Title5, year = 2010}

And to compile the document:

pdflatex multibiblinktest
pdflatex multibiblinktest
pdflatex multibiblinktest
bibtex F
bibtex B
pdflatex multibiblinktest
pdflatex multibiblinktest
pdflatex multibiblinktest
open multibiblinktest.pdf

Best Answer

You are using a standard BibTeX style with natbib. You should be using the unsrtnat style rather than unsrt as you are using the natbib package.

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[Tex/LaTex] natbib and hyperref for (Author, Year) style produces two links

The two links are created by the command \hyper@natlinkbreak, which is defined by hyperref.sty. To remove the break you can revert back to the provisional definition from natbib.sty by inserting the following lines into your preamble:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\hyper@natlinkbreak[2]{#1}
\makeatother

The results with this simple fix aren't great; links generated by \cite and \citet don't include the postnote and closing bracket, which looks funny. This can be resolved somewhat by patching the internal natbib macros using etoolbox. Spurious closing brackets are tedious to avoid in compact citations. The patches below side-step this issue by suppressing compact labels in \citet and its variants.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\makeatletter

\pretocmd{\NAT@citex}{%
  \let\NAT@hyper@\NAT@hyper@citex
  \def\NAT@postnote{#2}%
  \setcounter{NAT@total@cites}{0}%
  \setcounter{NAT@count@cites}{0}%
  \forcsvlist{\stepcounter{NAT@total@cites}\@gobble}{#3}}{}{}
\newcounter{NAT@total@cites}
\newcounter{NAT@count@cites}
\def\NAT@postnote{}

% include postnote and \citet closing bracket in hyperlink
\def\NAT@hyper@citex#1{%
  \stepcounter{NAT@count@cites}%
  \hyper@natlinkstart{\@citeb\@extra@b@citeb}#1%
  \ifnumequal{\value{NAT@count@cites}}{\value{NAT@total@cites}}
    {\ifNAT@swa\else\if*\NAT@postnote*\else%
     \NAT@cmt\NAT@postnote\global\def\NAT@postnote{}\fi\fi}{}%
  \ifNAT@swa\else\if\relax\NAT@date\relax
  \else\NAT@@close\global\let\NAT@nm\@empty\fi\fi% avoid compact citations
  \hyper@natlinkend}
\renewcommand\hyper@natlinkbreak[2]{#1}

% avoid extraneous postnotes, closing brackets
\patchcmd{\NAT@citex}
  {\ifNAT@swa\else\if*#2*\else\NAT@cmt#2\fi
   \if\relax\NAT@date\relax\else\NAT@@close\fi\fi}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\NAT@citex}
  {\if\relax\NAT@date\relax\NAT@def@citea\else\NAT@def@citea@close\fi}
  {\if\relax\NAT@date\relax\NAT@def@citea\else\NAT@def@citea@space\fi}{}{}

\makeatother

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{companion,
  author = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank and Samarin, Alexander},
  title = {The LaTeX Companion},
  edition = {1},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  location = {Reading, Mass.},
  year = {1994}}
@Book{adams,
  title = {The Restaurant at the End of the Universe},
  author = {Douglas Adams},
  series = {The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy},
  publisher = {Pan Macmillan},
  year = {1980}}
\end{filecontents}

\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.25}

\begin{document}
\noindent
cite: \cite{adams}, \cite{companion} \\
citet: \citet{adams}, \citet[see][p. 20]{adams} \\
multi citet: \citet{companion,adams} \\
citep: \citep{adams}, \citep[see][p. 20]{companion} \\
multi citep: \citep{companion,adams} \\
citetext, citealp: \citetext{see \citealp{companion}, or even better \citealp{adams}} \\
citeauthor: \citeauthor{adams}, \citeauthor{companion} \\
citeyear: \citeyear{adams}, \citeyear{companion} \\
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Citation alias with multibib and natbib

Of course whatever other solution different from the alias system is absolutely welcomed.

As often I recommend biblatex. However the solution below doesn't use biblatex.

Your example has some errors listed below.

Errors related to multibib

If you define a new bibliography with \newcites{<ext>}{<headind>}, the new commands \bibliographystyle<ext>, \bibliography<ext> and \cite<ext> will be defined. So in your case the line
```
\newcites{sec}{Other bibliographic references}
```
leads to the commands:
```
\bibliographystylesec
\bibliographysec
```
and a new file <ext>.aux will be created. This new file needs his own bibtex run.

Errors related to your bibliography style plainnat

your style writes the following lines to your included bbl file (included by \bibliography).

\newcommand{\noopsort}[1]{}
\newcommand{\printfirst}[2]{#1}
\newcommand{\singleletter}[1]{#1}
\newcommand{\switchargs}[2]{#2#1}

You want to have two bibliographies and so the definition of the commands are done twice. This occurs to the error that the commands are defined. One approach would be to set the commands undefined before including the second bibliography.

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{xampl}

\let\noopsort\undefined
\let\printfirst\undefined
\let\singleletter\undefined
\let\switchargs\undefined

\bibliographystylesec{plainnat}
\bibliographysec{xampl}

the style plainnat is a numerical citation style. The manual of natbib provides the following information
By default, natbib is in author–year mode. This can be changed by
1. selecting a numerical bibliography style with predefined citation style, defined either in the package or in the local configuration file;

Errors related to natbib's \defcitealias

the command \defcitealias is described in the documentation with the following sentence:

Sometimes one wants to refer to a reference with a special designation, rather than by the authors
that means your key of \defcitealias must be a given entry of you bib file. You doesn't show us your bib file so I used the file xampl.bib which is located in your texmf tree.
the command \defcitealias makes no differences between the different bibliographies, so you can use it as described in the documentation.
multibib defines the command \citep<ext> etc. The defined commands are all listed in the command \@mb@citenamelist. In the documentation of multibib you find the following hint:
Packages which define new cite commands can add these commands using \@mb@citenamelist. The default definition, which already includes natbib’s cite variants, is given below.
```
\def\@mb@citenamelist{cite,citep,citet,citealp,citealt}
```
You see the commands citepalias and citetalias are missed. So before the package multibib is loaded add the following lines:
```
\makeatletter
\def\@mb@citenamelist{cite,citep,citet,citealp,citealt,citepalias,citetalias}
\makeatother
```

Based on the given information here the result as a minimal example with the resulting output. The compilation steps are done by the great tool arara:

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: bibtex : { files :[test , sec] }
% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
%: Start Header
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}

\makeatletter
\def\@mb@citenamelist{cite,citep,citet,citealp,citealt,citepalias,citetalias}
\makeatother
\usepackage{multibib}
\newcites{sec}{Other bibliographic references}

\defcitealias{manual-full}{International journal of logistics, issue 91}

\begin{document}

\cite{article-full}

\citesec{booklet-full}

Something something something and then \citepaliassec{manual-full}.

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{xampl}

\let\noopsort\undefined
\let\printfirst\undefined
\let\singleletter\undefined
\let\switchargs\undefined

\bibliographystylesec{plainnat}
\bibliographysec{xampl}

\end{document}

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