Highlighting in LaTeX with the soul package - highlighting citations

Ok, after a quick search, I found that if you put an extra set of brackets around the \cite{}, then the highlighting should work!!

 So for example, \hl{{\cite{citation}}}

 It should work for other citation types too, \citeyear, etc.  I haven't tried it, but it probably works for other environments.

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20021/how-to-highlight-paragraph-linebreak-preserving-as-well-as-itemize-tabular-et

Here is a screen shot from me: