Color citations with textcolor in LaTeX

Alec Jacobson

March 27, 2013

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I'm trying to highlight changes in a LaTeX document. I tried to do this using \textcolor. So my LaTeX looks something like:
This is the \textcolor{red}{oldest citation possible \cite{Kish:3500BC}.}
Which produced something like: This is the oldest citation possible [Kish 3500BC]. The problem was that I was using a class (*.cls file) that was coloring all hyperlinks, including citations, black. To turn this off I changed:
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true, ...
to
\hypersetup{colorlinks=false, ...
Now my coloring comes out correctly: This is the oldest citation possible [Kish 3500BC].