How to Make DOI a Clickable Blue Hyperlink in Zotero (APA 7)

NawariIde · 2025-02-12T14:12:54+00:00

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Hello everyone,

I am using Zotero with the APA 7 citation style and want to ensure that DOI links in my exported bibliography automatically appear as clickable blue hyperlinks, so they open the corresponding article in a browser when clicked.

Currently, the DOI appears as plain text without hyperlink formatting. Is there a way to configure Zotero so that DOI links in the exported bibliography are formatted as blue hyperlinks according to APA 7 standards? Do I need to modify the CSL file, or is there a built-in setting I can adjust?

Thank you for your help!

adamsmith · 2025-02-12T14:25:40+00:00

You can just run Word's autoformat over the selected bibliography and (assuming you have Word's hyperlinking feature turned on, which it is by default) it'll hyperlink the DOIs. See https://wordribbon.tips.net/T012976_AutoFormatting_a_Document.html for autoformat

johnmy · 2025-02-13T03:00:00+00:00

@adamsmith The bibliography have to be unlinked before apply the autoformat, is it right?

adamsmith · 2025-02-13T03:07:31+00:00

Yes, that's right

johnmy · 2025-02-13T03:08:05+00:00

ok，thanks

NawariIde · 2025-02-13T04:44:51+00:00

@adamsmith Thank you for the solution you provided. I really hope that in the future, this feature can work without having to unlink the citation first so that the citations can still be updated.

NicolasBerniquez-Villemaire · 2025-02-28T16:32:29+00:00

Is autoformat working with footnotes? It does not seem to. The button is grey and non-clickable when the cursor is in a footnote.
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damnation · 2025-02-28T17:07:46+00:00

You'll obviously want to do the unlinking of your citations in a copy of your document.

There is also some VBA scripts floating around in the forum that should do the same. I can't remember if you had to unlink citations for that also.