LaTeX – Add clickable links to a section/subsection with a PDF document

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I am making PDF with LaTeX. I have a few sections and subsections. I want to put a link towards the top of the document so that in the PDF someone can click on it and it'll go to that section/subsection. I know it's possible to have this with a linkable table of contents, but I don't want to make a table of contents, I need more control.

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Include \usepackage{hyperref} in the preamble of your document. Assign proper labels to your sections and reference these labels using \ref{}. These references will then be turned into clickable links when creating PDFs with pdflatex.

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Latex Table of Contents Links to Wrong Section

You'll need to use the \phantomsection command:

\section{Section1}
ABC.
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures}
\listoffigures
\newpage

\section{Section2}
DEF.
\section{Section3}
GHI.

See the hyperref manual.

Latex: Citations in section headings put into table of contents first

I agree with jlouis' recommendation of avoiding citations in section headings. But if you insist, one solution may be to use the following form of the \section command:

\section[Section title sans citation]{Section title with citation\cite{key}}

The table of contents will contain an entry consisting of the first (optional) argument ("Section title sans citation") and the section heading itself will be the second (required) argument ("Section title with citation[34]").

The first (optional) argument will also be used as the text in the running heads by default.

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