If your article is digital, just make it so that the full citation is revealed on hover (as a "tooltip"), so users don't have to jump back and forth.
edit: Tooltips supplement the traditional reference section. They are not to be printed.
edit: Tooltips supplement the traditional reference section. They are not to be printed.
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media>
Depending on the accuracy of the client, this could well give differing behaviours for desktop, mobile, and print output. HTML is flexible, very few designers seem willing to embrace this.