Making Citations Clickable Hyperlinks

tskwiat
If I'm using Zotero to write articles, research papers, etc., that are published electronically (e.g., online), is there any way to make the citations (in the body of the text) clickable so that the reader is taken to the abstract, full study, etc.?

For example, let's take the following excerpt about supplementation with oral glutathione:

"Setria (oral) glutathione has been shown to increase blood levels of glutathione. (1) Sublingual glutathione has also been shown blood levels of glutathione. (2) However, is there any head-to-head comparative data?"

In this example, I'd like to hyperlink citation 1 to this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24791752

And I'd like to hyperlink citation 2 to this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26262996

Is there any way to do this automatically through Zotero? Or, is this something that needs to be done manually (e.g., after writing, unlink citations, then manually add hyperlinks)?

Thank you very much for your time and help!
  • bwiernik
    This can’t be done automatically by Zotero, but you could use a Word macro to replace the contents of the underlying Zotero Field Codes with hyperlink information.

    There are also several methods discussed in various places on these forums to link the numeric citations to the bibliography entry, and you can include the DOI or URL there and use Word AutoFormat to make them clickable links.
  • tskwiat
    Hi bwiernik,

    Thanks so much for taking the time to provide such a thoughtful reply. I should have noted that I did attempt to do my due diligence in searching these forums before posting my question. I know it's a cardinal sin not to do so :)

    I don't know much about using Word macros, so I'll need to look into that.

    In another thread here on the forums, I think I saw someone mention that the Zotero plug-in for WordPress may have the capability to do what I'm looking for. The articles I'm writing are published in WordPress -- although that's done by someone else in my organization -- so maybe that's something for me to consider as well.

    Thank you very much for your time and help!
  • bwiernik
    WordPress is a website platform. Are you sure that’s what you mean?
  • marcel.goldschen
    I think that this is definitely something that Zotero should be able to do and is a much needed update. The whole point of using a citation manager is to avoid having to by hand implement each citation, and asking users to hack together code for msword is not a good solution either, even if it is possible. Unless I'm missing something, this is easily implemented by Zotero (for example by linking each citation to it's DOI URL), and should be an option in their msword add-on. Please add this ASAP! Ideally, the user could select between no links, links to bibliography, or direct links to DOI URLs.
  • giammi56
    @tskwiat could you please share one of the attempts that you consider easier to implement?
  • Bauer.KD
    For reference, the way I'm usually seeing it implemented in collaborative documents without proper library tool is to create a bibliography manually and use textual references to the identifier listed in the bibliography.

    In Word this would be done with bookmark references.
  • gwyn-hopkins
    It is possible to do this for author-date citations (at least in libreoffice - see crude python code below). When it comes to numbered references, I cannot see any sensible way to deal with grouped numbers such as 5-10. There is no place to put the links.
    Feel free to improve the code.


    import uno
    from ast import literal_eval as to_dict
    document = XSCRIPTCONTEXT.getDocument()

    #alter this for citations divided by comma
    ns = ";"

    def copylinks():
    oSearch = document.createSearchDescriptor()
    oSearch.SearchRegularExpression = True
    oCurs = document.getText().createTextCursor()
    refmarks = document.ReferenceMarks
    for refmark in refmarks:
    a = refmark.Name
    b, _ = a.rsplit(" ", 1)
    _,_, c = b.split(" ", 2)
    d = to_dict(c)
    cite = d["properties"]["formattedCitation"]
    plain_cite = d["properties"]["plainCitation"]
    plain_cite = plain_cite.replace("(", "")
    plain_cite = plain_cite.replace(")", "")
    #alter this for citations divided by comma
    names = list(plain_cite.split(ns))

    if "citationItems" in d.keys():
    list_e = d["citationItems"]
    else:
    continue

    for g in list_e:

    if "itemData" in g.keys():
    h = g["itemData"]
    authors = h["author"]
    m = authors[0]
    author = m["family"]
    citatation = list(filter(lambda x: author in x,names))
    oCurs = refmark.getAnchor()
    oCursor = oCurs.getStart()
    oSearch.SearchString = citatation[0]
    oFound = document.findNext(oCursor, oSearch)
    oCursor2 = oFound.Text.createTextCursorByRange(oFound)

    if "DOI" in h.keys():
    DOI = h["DOI"]
    else:
    DOI = ""
    if "source" in h.keys():
    source = h["source"]
    else:
    source = ""
    if "note" in h.keys():
    note = h["note"]
    else:
    note = ""
    else:
    continue
    if DOI:
    oCursor2.HyperLinkURL = "https://doi.org/" + DOI
    aaa = oCursor2.HyperLinkURL
    elif source == "PubMed":
    _, n = note.split(": ")
    oCursor2.HyperLinkURL = "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/" + n
    else:
    pass
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