Why not link: both authors alone, the journal, and the year.
Basically the point being that you could in the future, filter by year, journal, or authors as well. I suppose you could just do this with Regex, but isn’t the benefit of bi-directional links that you could pull of the journal title for instance and peruse the backlinks to identify all the articles that come form that journal, or author, or year, as the case may be.
Just some thoughts.