LaTeX changes colour of in-text citing with hyperref package and natbib

Question

I am using the natbib and hyperref packages in my LaTeX document and would like to change the colour of the box around the hyper-referenced citations from the baseline green to a more muted colour (violet or navy blue). However, in using the suggested code to do this, I cannot get the citation link colours to change. MWE:

\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
 colorlinks=false,
 citecolor=Violet,
 linkcolor=Red,
 urlcolor=Blue}

 \begin{document}

 \bibliographystyle{apsr}
 \bibliography{exp_final}
 \end{document}

However, when I compile (I compiled multiple times to make sure) my pdf file looks the same as if I had excluded the formatting in the \hypersetup (still the same green). I would also like to box the footnote citations as well.

You have a double \usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false]{hyperref} command in your code sample. You can safely remove one of them -- I suppose it's a copy/paste error. — Lohrun

Lohrun Lohrun · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-05T08:05:43

Actually the sample code you provided deactivate the link colorisation with the option colorlinks=false. You should use the following hyperref setup command that actually change links color.

\hypersetup{
  colorlinks,
  citecolor=Violet,
  linkcolor=Red,
  urlcolor=Blue}

To change box color around the links and citations, you have these other options :

\hypersetup{
  citebordercolor=Violet,
  filebordercolor=Red,
  linkbordercolor=Blue
}

Box appearance (specifically, width of PDF link border) is controlled by the pdfborder option. If the colorlinks option is set, boxes are deactivated (see the hyperref manual for more information).

LaTeX changes colour of in-text citing with hyperref package and natbib

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