[Tex/LaTex] No hyper refs from citation to bibliography using BiBTeX, hyperref and harvard

bibtexharvard-stylehyperrefnatbib

I am trying to get internal hyperrefs from citation to the bibliography page.
I am using BiBTeX, the harvard package, the hyperref package with optional [hidelinks].
The latter works fine to me on the TOC and sections refs.

I read in hyperref package help that it is designed to work with the harvard package. Yet, there is no further explanation on how to make it work.
Here is a MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage[abbr]{harvard}
\citationstyle{dcu}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
This is a test \cite{test}
\clearpage
\bibliographystyle{dcu}
\bibliography{test}
\end{document}

with test.bib being :

@article{test,
title = "Testing and tests",
author = "Test {Tester}",
journal = "Journal of tests",
volume = "1",
pages = "1",
year = "2012",
}

I am using an up to date Texmaker editor, running on an up to date TeX Live 2011 distribution, on MS Win7.

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The hyperref package is known for not being entirely compatible with many citation manager packages, with the main exception of natbib. (I.e., hyperref is fully compatible with natbib.) While it's true that the user guide to the hyperref package notes that the harvard package is "supported", the next sentence in the same paragraph of the user guide states that "the recommended package is Patrick Daly's natbib package".

Fortunately, you need not change your harvard-style citation commands to equivalent natbib-style commands in order to get full interoperability with the hyperref package: there is a nifty little package called har2nat that performs these translations for you. Thus, if you replace the instructions

\usepackage[abbr]{harvard}
\citationstyle{dcu}

in your MWE with

\usepackage{har2nat}   % loads "natbib" automatically
\setcitestyle{aysep={,}} % needed to fully emulate harvard's "dcu" citation style
\citationstyle{dcu}  % provided by the "harvard" package

the hyperlinks from the citation call-outs to the corresponding entries in the bibliography are formed correctly. Observe that you should not load the harvard package with this setup.

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I can't answer your question directly, but I can suggest a workaround that is just about fail-safe: Instead of loading the harvard bibliography citation manager, load both the natbib and har2nat packages. Natbib is known to work very well with hyperref, and the har2nat package "translates" all harvard-type citation commands into equivalent natbib-type citation commands. That way, you can keep using all of your harvard-style citation commands, but they'll be processed by natbib from now on. :-)

Before you (re)run latex and bibtex on your latex file, you should probably delete the various auxiliary files, as they contain information in "harvard"-style rather than "natbib"-style directives.

I made this switch (from harvard to natbib, with help from the har2nat package) a couple of years ago, after I ran into problems caused by interactions with hyperref -- more or less the same problems as you describe in your posting. I've not experienced these problems since then. :-)

Some additional comments about your document's preamble, not related to the harvard-hyperref interaction issue:

The times package is obsolete; consider loading mathptmx.
You needn't load the cite package if you load either the harvard or the natbib package. (Both packages redefine LaTeX's \cite command, disabling whatever functionality is provided by the cite package.)
The command \hypersetup{colorlinks=false} is unnecessary since you've already specified the option pdfborder=... when loading the hyperref package.

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There are six styles provided by harvard which are compatible with natbib.

The command \harvardurl only format the style of the url. The output of the url is defined in the used bst file.

As an example of one of the six styles I use the file agsm.bst to demonstrate the behavior.

The file agsm.bst has the following code:

FUNCTION {write.url}
{ URL empty$
    { skip$ }
    { "\newline\harvardurl{" URL * "}" * write$ newline$ }
  if$
}

If the entry of the url is empty you will get no output. Otherwise you get the output:

\newline URL formated with \harvardurl \newline

To avoid the output of the url you must modify the bst file.

Please note: Never change the original bst file. Make a copy of the needed bst in your working directory and modify this new file.

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