Latex change color of intext citing with hyperref package and natbib

Question

I am using the natbib and hyperref package in conjunction with my latex document. I would like to change to the color of my hyppereferenced citations (the box around the citation) from the ugly baseline green to a more muted (violet or navy blue). However, in using the suggested code to do this, I can not get the citation link colors to change. My code is as follows

\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false]{hyperref}
\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) this my pdf file looks the same as if I had excluded the formatting in the hypersetup (still the same ugly green). I would also like to box the footnote citations as well. Any ideas or help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Thomas

Answer 1

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 are controlled by the pdfborder option. If the colorlinks option is set, boxes are deactivated (see the hyperref manual for more information).