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BibTeX exported from scientific journals usually have all the informations you need to cite them; one of them is the url. For saving space i would prefer to hyperlink the name of the journal rather than printing the whole url. One way to do such thing would be by writing the url as an \href before the journal name in the .bib file like so 

@article{Reference7,
   author = "Zwicker, Judith and Lovett, Ronald",
   title = "When does a pair correlation function fix the state of an equilibrium system?",
   journal =    "\href{http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/93/9/10.1063/1.458944}{The Journal of Chemical Physics}",
   year = "1990",
   volume = "93",
   number = "9",
   pages = "6752-6755",
   url = "",
   doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.458944" 
}

which will generate a the desired form, that is

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My question is: since I have a huge number of citations, is there a procedure to achieve the same result in an automated fashion, because in this case I have copied the url from its previous position (url = " here ") to where it is now. Thanks

Guido
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  • Did you try the new way via biblatex and biber? – Paul Gaborit Nov 26 '14 at 23:32
  • @ Ruben Thanks @Paul No, I'm using bibtex; do you think its worth? – Manfredo Nov 26 '14 at 23:51
  • @Manfredo You may read this answer... and this list of questions. – Paul Gaborit Nov 26 '14 at 23:53
  • Ok the answer is probably here (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/157093/biblatex-make-authors-hyperlink-to-dois-url-or-isbn-and-url-breaklink-issue) – Manfredo Nov 27 '14 at 00:03
  • The doi is enough and url useless. Your doi field should be: doi = "10.1063/1.458944" and should include a link when compiled no? In which case a link on the title as requested is not needed any more. – pluton Nov 27 '14 at 01:10
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    It is misleading to use the journal title to link to the particular article. I would expect that link to take me to the journal's homepage. It would be more appropriate to link the DOI, as @pluton suggests. BibLaTeX has sophisticated facilities for this kind of case, including hyperlinked eprints which you can configure globally by type (so you just specify the identifier and the type in your .bib file). Definitely space and effort efficient! – cfr Nov 27 '14 at 02:41
  • Ok thanks for the suggestion, in this case I've seen that both links redirect to the article's page but I agree that it is more reasonable to link the doi. By the way this is the Journal of Chemical Physics type of formatting but they don't provide the [.bst] file. – Manfredo Nov 27 '14 at 10:59

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