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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Oct 19, 2014 9:07PM

Patrick wrote:
" Does anything in the APA format explicitly forbid making the entire
reference (including "Burgstahler...") an actual link? This would still
allow for a slightly more contextual link text (bonus points for using
styling that suppresses the underline on the non-URL part but makes it
return on focus/hover)."

Not that I remember.
But I don't think that's the best solution.
A hyperlink should be a hyperlink of just the URL, not the entire
bibliographic information.

Plus, hyperlinking all of that narrative text would make it visibly
unreadable for sighted readers, especially if it's in blue and underlined.

- Bevi Chagnon

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