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-The sphinx extension `apidoc <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/man/sphinx-apidoc.html/>`_ is used to automatically document code using signatures and docstrings.
+The sphinx extension `apidoc <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/man/sphinx-apidoc.html>`_ is used to automatically document code using signatures and docstrings.
 
 Numpy or Google style docstrings will be picked up from project files and available for documentation. See the `Napoleon <https://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ extension for details.