Can a Bibliography Just Be Links?

Hyperlink citation (or hypercitation) is an unassuming concept: attributing credit to an original work by formatting hyperlinks directly into the text of an academic paper or assignment. No footnotes, no parentheses, no dates, and no page numbers.

Can you cite with just a link?

10 Answers. No, it's not OK to cite URLs because firstly, you are citing ONLY the URL! The URL could change at any given time without notice.

Can we put links in bibliography?

As many papers are available online nowadays, it seems to me that bibliographic references should include, whenever possible, a link to the paper being cited: this is supported by the PDF format, and is easy to do (at least for works typeset in LaTeX: e.g., with \href{} or \url{} ).