A dev responded to this in January: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/324312/#Comment_324312

Hello,
I made a review of @cjac1 s word macro, because I also need the links and there were some issues with the script.
You can use this as a basis, or adjust some parts to your needs. My citations are of the type [1], [2], [4]; or [1]-[3]; or [1], [2]-[5], and the macro (below) can handle all of these. Each Ref. has to be in brackets [].
Every visible number of the citation block is converted to a hyperlink. I have tested it with my thesis (Word 2016, >70 references). It worked quite well, but i recommend to test it on a copy of your file. The changes are irreversible.
I have mainly only standard references (articles, papers, thesis, books and book sections). I got a problem with a document type ref, but i fixed this (more or less). So in some special cases there are issues... maybe, I dont know.

Hyperlinks doesnt work in footnotes.

copy it: in Word Alt+F8; type any name --> create; copy+paste all of the code there,
start it: in Word Alt+F8; choose ' ZoteroLinkCitation' --> run

Have Fun! And sry for the long post.



Public Sub ZoteroLinkCitation()

' get selected area (if applicable)
Dim nStart&, nEnd&
nStart = Selection.Start
nEnd = Selection.End

' toggle screen updating
Application.ScreenUpdating = False

' define variables
Dim title As String
Dim titleAnchor As String
Dim style As String
Dim fieldCode As String
Dim numOrYear As String
Dim pos&, n1&, n2&, n3&

ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = True
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting

' find the Zotero bibliography
With Selection.Find
.Text = "^d ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL"
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute

' add bookmark for the Zotero bibliography
With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="Zotero_Bibliography"
.DefaultSorting = wdSortByName
.ShowHidden = True
End With

' loop through each field in the document
For Each aField In ActiveDocument.Fields
' check if the field is a Zotero in-text reference
'##################################################
If InStr(aField.Code, "ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM") > 0 Then
fieldCode = aField.Code
'#############
' Prepare
' Plain citation== Format of Textfield shown
' must be in Brackets
Dim plain_Cit As String
plCitStrBeg = """plainCitation"":""["
plCitStrEnd = "]"""
n1 = InStr(fieldCode, plCitStrBeg)
n1 = n1 + Len(plCitStrBeg)
n2 = InStr(Mid(fieldCode, n1, Len(fieldCode) - n1), plCitStrEnd) - 1 + n1
plain_Cit = Mid$(fieldCode, n1 - 1, n2 - n1 + 2)
'Reference 'as shown' in word as a string

'Title array in fieldCode (all referenced Titles within this field)
Dim array_RefTitle(32) As String
i = 0
Do While InStr(fieldCode, """title"":""") > 0
n1 = InStr(fieldCode, """title"":""") + Len("""title"":""")
n2 = InStr(Mid(fieldCode, n1, Len(fieldCode) - n1), """,""") - 1 + n1
If n2 < n1 Then 'Exception the type 'Article'
n2 = InStr(Mid(fieldCode, n1, Len(fieldCode) - n1), "}") - 1 + n1 - 1
End If
array_RefTitle(i) = Mid(fieldCode, n1, n2 - n1)
fieldCode = Mid(fieldCode, n2 + 1, Len(fieldCode) - n2 - 1)
i = i + 1
Loop
Titles_in_Cit = i

'Number array with References shown in PlainCit
'Numer is equal or less than Titels, depending on the type
'[3], [8]-[10]; [2]-[4]; [2], [4], [5]
' All citations have to be in Brackets each! [3], [8] not [3, 8]
' This doesnt work otherwise!
' --> treatment of other delimiters could be implemented here
Dim RefNumber(32) As String
i = 0
Do While (InStr(plain_Cit, "]") Or InStr(plain_Cit, "[")) > 0
n1 = InStr(plain_Cit, "[")
n2 = InStr(plain_Cit, "]")
RefNumber(i) = Mid(plain_Cit, n1 + 1, n2 - (n1 + 1))
plain_Cit = Mid(plain_Cit, n2 + 1, Len(plain_Cit) - (n2 + 1) + 1)
i = i + 1
Loop
Refs_in_Cit = i




I have been writing a macro for libreoffice odt files. I assumed that the listing of references was by numbered paragraph, and therefore just made a bookmark called _Ref_n where n is the paragraph number, and linked from the citation number to that. This would be much shorter.
Also similar procedure for author names (by this is not so accurate with multiple references where the first author is the same - links just to the first reference in the sequence, or to authors with say "van der" or some other lowercase prenom).

This thread is great and just what I'm looking for. I need to link citations in a PDF for a report I'm writing.

When I run the script though, the whole document appears to be blank. The word count still shows up, so it's doing something bad to the document, but I'm afraid I'm not enough of a programmer to understand what.

Have folks gotten this script to work?

Checking back in to see if Zotero has made any progress with this feature.

Thank you, @freim86 , for the work ! It's like magic !

I would like to update the instructions for those who are not on Windows:
I copied the 2 parts of the script in a text file.
Then open Tools > Macros > Visual Basic Editor . In there, I created a new module under Normal > Modules, and in that window I pasted everything from the text file. Save, close. Switch back to Word. You may need to restart it.
Then, to run it, you open Tools > Macros > "Macros...". You should see the name "ZoteroLinkCitation" in there. Select it, then click Run. Wait. Voilà !

So yes, @Phill_Jones , it works for me. But I have a small 5-page document.

Hi!
Is there any news about the integration of this hyperlink to the bibliography functionality ?

In all the solutions proposed by the different contributors, does one of them work with APA citations like (Author, date) ?

Thanks for your help!

Hi!

Is there any hope for this in-text citation link to bibliography evolution to be integrated into Zotero?

Unfortunately, the methods proposed in this topic do not work for the APA standard
(Author, date).

Thanks for your help!

Hello everybody.
I went through this thread which was initiated as far as... 2010.
I'd like to join my voice to those who are requesting this in-text link between citation and bibliography capability to be developed. It might represent a fair amount of work but would be extremely useful.
Indeed, at least in sciences, more and more articles are published online or distributed as pdf files that must incorporate links between citation ad their corresponding full reference, often grouped at the end of the article.

@adomasven wrote on January 16, 2019:
"We'd like to have this, but it would require a rather large amount of work for a feature that's not that high on the priority list so we have no plans for the near future."
Have the priorities of dev changed since then?
End 2023 may be considered as the "near future" of 2019, no? ;-)
Should it not be the case, how can we push a feature higher in the list of priority?
I read that a lot of people are waiting for this feature to be implemented.
I'm new on Zotero and I am amazed by the capabilities and ergonomics on this application.
But I was a bit disappointed when I realized that no hyperlink had been created between the in-text citations and the reference compiled at the end of the article I was writing. I thought that, by using a reference management software, these links would have automatically been created.
But maybe the limitation comes from word itself?

This is a super useful feature. I request Zotero developers please consider this feature as the priority.
Whenever I review any manuscript, I often need to check the details of the bibliographic information from the reference list at the end of the document. If the feature allowed me to click on the in-text citation and take me to that specific bibliographic entry in the reference list, it would be super useful.
Currently, EndNote has this feature. I strongly recommend developing this feature within Zotero.

@altairwei

Thank you very much for the work put in the script! I am currently looking for such a solution to no avail... I will report back after trying your script.

We will look into adding this. We have created a ticket to track progress and will update this thread once we have any news.

@altairwei
Thank you very much. It worked for my thesis with more than 400 refs and the PDF also have the linked citations.