I'm new here so I'm not sure if this is the right way to express my question:

I'm using the excellent biblatex package with the author-year style and want the links in my citations to include the name of the author as well as the parentheses. The answer presented at hyperlink name with biblatex authoryear did exactly what I wanted but it seems the solution is broken with the newest biblatex version 1.4b. Can anyone help me by adapting the code to the newest biblatex version?

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    It's always best to provide a minimal example that we can test. Can you put one together, using some of the references in the biblatex example database if possible. – Joseph Wright Apr 16 '11 at 12:17
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    I tried and got the expected result. – egreg Apr 16 '11 at 13:08
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    Sorry, I checked again and it indeed works as in earlier versions. The reason I thought it was broken is a behaviour that looks awkward to me. If I use \textcite{key} the closing parenthesis after the date is not included in the hyperlink which looks awkward with colored links. It does make sense if you provide a page number like for example \textcite[27]{key}, but for a plain citation without a page number I think it would look better if the closing parenthesis was included. Is there a way to achieve this? Sorry for the mixup. Should I rather edit the whole question? – crusoli Apr 17 '11 at 12:44
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    Please provide an example we can test to see what you mean. – Joseph Wright Apr 20 '11 at 15:13
  • Also relevant: github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/428 – moewe Jun 17 '18 at 17:08

The code below hyperlinks the entire citation label for most citation commands. For \textcite the hyperlink includes the brackets around labelyear+extrayear, unless there are pre- or postnotes. In this case the link is applied only to labelyear+extrayear.


% Just for demo

  \DeclareFieldAlias{bibhyperref}{noformat}% Avoid nested links

  \DeclareFieldAlias{bibhyperref}{noformat}% Avoid nested links



    ( not test {\iffieldundef{prenote}} and
      test {\ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{1}} )
    ( not test {\iffieldundef{postnote}} and
      test {\ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{\value{citetotal}}} )

\textbf{Single citations}

Filler text \parencite{aristotle:poetics}. Filler text \parencite{kant:ku} \\
Filler text \parencite[See][23]{aristotle:poetics}.
Filler text \parencite[1--10]{kant:ku}. \\
\textcite{aristotle:poetics} and \textcite{kant:ku}.
\textcite[e.g.][]{aristotle:poetics} and \textcite[10]{kant:ku}. \\
Filler text.\footcite[23]{aristotle:poetics} Filler text.\footcite[1--10]{aristotle:rhetoric}
Filler text.\footnote{\smartcite[10--15]{companion}}

\textbf{Unqualified citation lists}

\textcite{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcite[e.g.][]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcite[10--15]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcite[e.g.][10--15]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\parencite[See][for example]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric}

\textbf{Qualified citation lists}

\textcites{aristotle:poetics}{aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcites(See)(){aristotle:poetics}[cf.][]{aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcites(See)()[10]{aristotle:poetics}[10]{aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcites(See)()[10--15]{aristotle:poetics}[cf.][10]{aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcites(See)()[e.g.][10--15]{aristotle:poetics}[cf.][10]{aristotle:rhetoric} \\

\textbf{Mix of qualified and unqualified citation lists}

\textcites(See)()[e.g.][]{aristotle:poetics}[10]{bertram,companion} \\
\textcites[e.g.][]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric}[10]{companion} \\
\textcites[10]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric}[cf.][]{bertram} \\


Here is the output you should obtain with biblatex 2.6 or earlier. The solution also works for later releases, where \textcite and friends use the and string as a final citation delimiter.

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    Why is this not an option in biblatex yet? – Oleg Dec 20 '15 at 20:16
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    Hmm, I rather think it should be the default. – PLK Jun 5 '16 at 17:23
  • Sorry to resurrect this… it works great except for one detail: when you do \DeclareFieldAlias{bibhyperref}{noformat} it causes text formatted as bibhyperref to ignore whether it's inside an emph command or something like that. The text always show up in the regular roman type, even when it should be in italics. Any ideas? – dbmrq Nov 28 '16 at 21:52
  • Uhm, nevermind… I must have redefined noformat somewhere. When I just define bibhyperref to {#1} it works out fine. – dbmrq Nov 28 '16 at 22:00
  • has the feature eventually found its way into the biblatex package? can someone point me to the section where it is explained in the documentation? – thymaro Apr 21 at 15:31

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