diff --git a/src/main/frontend/components/block.cljs b/src/main/frontend/components/block.cljs
index b06bf1698..d55cdb6f9 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/components/block.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/components/block.cljs
@@ -841,6 +841,9 @@
                (not= \* (last s)))
           (->elem :a {:on-click #(route-handler/jump-to-anchor! (mldoc/anchorLink (subs s 1)))} (subs s 1))
 
+          (not (string/includes? s "."))
+          (page-reference (:html-export? config) s config label)
+
           (util/safe-re-find #"(?i)^http[s]?://" s)
           (->elem :a {:href s
                       :data-href s