If there's no need to tell a parser where the link text begins and ends, then putting the URL in parentheses after the relevant text (without square brackets) w

If there's no need to tell a parser where the link text begins and ends, then putting the URL in parentheses after the relevant text (without square brackets) would be less fussy. The "HN style" of citation/linking is basically the IEEE citation style. You could call it "blessed". http://www.ijssst.info/info/IEEE-Citation-StyleGuide.pdf http://www.ijssst.info/info/IEEE-Citation-StyleGuide.pdf https://www.ieee.org/documents/ieeecitationref.pdf https://www.ieee.org/documents/ieeecitationref.pdf