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I converted citation format to alphabetical according to this answer. But, it created an abnormal behavior in hyperref. Although the citations are still clickable in the PDF, nothing happens when I click on them. (With hyperref, when a citation is clicked, it should be dereferenced and the PDF viewer should jump to bibliography page where the citation was declared.)

MWE:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{hyperref, lipsum}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@bibitem[1]{\item\if@filesw \immediate\write\@auxout{%
\string\bibcite{#1}{\theenumiv}}\fi\ignorespaces} %%% instead of \the\value{\@listctr}

\renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]
     {\section*{\refname}
      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\refname}{\MakeUppercase\refname}%
      \list{\@biblabel{\alph{enumiv}}}% %% instead of "\@arabic\c@enumiv"
           {\settowidth\labelwidth{\@biblabel{#1}}%
            \leftmargin\labelwidth
            \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
            \@openbib@code
            \usecounter{enumiv}%
            \let\p@enumiv\@empty
            \renewcommand\theenumiv{\alph{enumiv}}}% 
                                    %% instead of "\@arabic\c@enumiv"
      \sloppy
      \clubpenalty4000
      \@clubpenalty \clubpenalty
      \widowpenalty4000%
      \sfcode`\.\@m}
    {\def\@noitemerr
       {\@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}%
      \endlist}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\cite{A1}
\lipsum[2]
\pagebreak
\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{A1}{John (2011)} 
\bibitem{B1}{Carl (2015)}
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

Any idea how to fix it? I am using XeLaTeX engine to compile the document. (Because I intend to use package polyglossia later.)

My attempts to identify the problem:

After a little investigation, it became clear that when I renewed only \@bibitem command and not \thebibliography environment, the citation dereferencing error still remained.

Then I tried the following code, which is completely identical to the original definition of \@bibitem according to the LaTeX Bibliography manual. The error is here too.

Can anyone explain what is exactly happening?

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{hyperref, lipsum}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@bibitem[1]{\item\if@filesw \immediate\write\@auxout{%
\string\bibcite{#1}{\the\value{\@listctr}}}\fi\ignorespaces}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\cite{A1}
\lipsum[2]
\pagebreak
\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{A1}{John (2011)} 
\bibitem{B1}{Carl (2015)}
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
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  • Just a suggestion: why not use BibTeX or Biber in conjunction with biblatex? In the same question you linked there's a solution for biblatex by lockstep – Guilherme Zanotelli Dec 13 '16 at 08:41
  • The answer you appear to be referring to deals with a much more contained issue, viz., how to change the numeric-type citation call-outs from the default style to a different, but fundamentally still numeric style. As such, the answer in question is not a good basis for coding a switch to an authoryear-type citation call-out style. Also, that answer makes no provisions for interacting with hyperref. Instead of modifying \@bibitem directly, I'd make use of the natbib package and provide the required new pieces of information in the optional argument of each \bibitem instruction. – Mico Dec 13 '16 at 09:35
  • @Mico, I wanted alphabetical style numbering, ie- [a] John(2011) [b] Carl(2015). And when cited I wanted them to be appear like [a], [b] etc. If you run my MWE, you'll see that's what I was doing. The author year format was used for just a sample bibliography. – zigs211567 Dec 13 '16 at 10:56
  • Thanks. I'm afraid I understand even less now what you're objective is. – Mico Dec 13 '16 at 11:02
  • @Mico, Please run my MWE, and click on the first citation (ie \cite{A1}) in the PDF. One would expect to be forwarded to the References page (ie next page), but nothing happens. That is what I want to 'fix' – zigs211567 Dec 13 '16 at 11:11

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The main problem is that the hyperref package has to be loaded after you have redefined the bib commands since it modifies them, too. I suggest to modify \bibitem and \thebibliography a little bit less invasive.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{hyperref, lipsum}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\makeatletter
\xpatchcmd\@bibitem{\the\value}{\alph}{}{}
\xpatchcmd\thebibliography{\@arabic}{\@alph}{}{}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
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