URLs
Q. Should a sentence that ends with a Web-site address end with a period that is not part of the address? I am concerned that people who are not familiar with how URLs work might have trouble finding a site if they assume that the final period is part of the address. I have the same concern about putting a Web address in quotation marks. Have you found any effective way of making sure people will be able to tell Web-site addresses from surrounding punctuation?
A.We have embraced the view that punctuation marks following a URL will be readily enough perceived as belonging to the surrounding text. We do not recommend setting off a URL with angle brackets, which we allowed in the past; for one thing, angle brackets are used in some markup languages (see paragraph 17.10 in CMOS 15).
