diff --git a/src/components/About.jsx b/src/components/About.jsx
index c9c762a..8a1f3a1 100644
--- a/src/components/About.jsx
+++ b/src/components/About.jsx
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import React from "react";
 import { Typography, Row, Col } from "antd";
 import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
+import { faExternalLink } from "@fortawesome/pro-regular-svg-icons";
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome";
 import References from "./References";
 import config from "../config";
 
@@ -16,8 +18,8 @@ export default function About() {
         quick to look up by identifier. You can also upload your own data and match it against these public data sets. 
       </Paragraph>
       <Paragraph>
-        More information about the software infrastructure is available in our <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-05732-7">published paper</a> and {" "}
-        <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/scaling-neuroscience-research-on-aws/">AWS blog post</a>.
+        More information about the software infrastructure is available in our <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-05732-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">published paper <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a> and {" "}
+        <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/scaling-neuroscience-research-on-aws/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AWS blog post <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>.
       </Paragraph>
 
       <Row gutter={20}>
@@ -69,7 +71,7 @@ export default function About() {
           <ul>
             <li><Link to="/usage">Usage Terms</Link></li>
             <li><Link to="/upload-policy">Uploaded Data Usage and Retention Policy</Link></li>
-            <li><a href="https://www.hhmi.org/privacy-policy">HHMI Privacy Policy</a></li>
+            <li><a href="https://www.hhmi.org/privacy-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HHMI Privacy Policy <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a></li>
           </ul>
 
           <Title level={2}>Release Notes</Title>
@@ -86,13 +88,13 @@ export default function About() {
           <Title level={2}>Site Feedback Survey</Title>
           <Paragraph>
             Please take a moment to fill out our{" "}
-            <a href="https://forms.gle/tJa6GAwEjs7fykhG7">site feedback survey</a>.
+            <a href="https://forms.gle/tJa6GAwEjs7fykhG7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">site feedback survey <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>.
           </Paragraph>
 
           <Title level={2}>Source Code</Title>
           <Paragraph>
             You can find all of the code for this website and the supporting infrastructure in our{" "}
-            <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/neuronbridge">GitHub repositories</a>.
+            <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/neuronbridge" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub repositories <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>.
           </Paragraph>
 
         </Col>
diff --git a/src/components/Admin.jsx b/src/components/Admin.jsx
index efaef05..78e5a8b 100644
--- a/src/components/Admin.jsx
+++ b/src/components/Admin.jsx
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import React, { useState, useEffect, useContext } from "react";
 import { Auth } from "aws-amplify";
 import { Switch } from "antd";
+import { faExternalLink } from "@fortawesome/pro-regular-svg-icons";
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome";
 import { AppContext } from "../containers/AppContext";
 import AnnouncementsCreate from "./AnnouncementsCreate";
 
@@ -34,8 +36,8 @@ export default function Admin() {
   return (
     <>
       <h2>Admin Page</h2>
-      <a href="https://janelia-neuronbridge-admin-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html">
-        Custom search admin site
+      <a href="https://janelia-neuronbridge-admin-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+        Custom search admin site <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
       </a>
       <p>Bearer token:</p>
       <textarea
diff --git a/src/components/DevSiteBanner.jsx b/src/components/DevSiteBanner.jsx
index fce4f19..b870066 100644
--- a/src/components/DevSiteBanner.jsx
+++ b/src/components/DevSiteBanner.jsx
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import "./DevSiteBanner.css";
 import { useContext } from "react";
 import { Switch } from "antd";
+import { faExternalLink } from "@fortawesome/pro-regular-svg-icons";
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome";
 import { AppContext } from "../containers/AppContext";
 
 export default function DevSiteBanner() {
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ export default function DevSiteBanner() {
     <div className="devsite-banner">
       <p>
         This is the development server. For the public release, please go to{" "}
-        <a href="https://neuronbridge.janelia.org">prod</a> | {" "}
+        <a href="https://neuronbridge.janelia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">prod <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a> | {" "}
         { appState.isAdmin ? (
         <Switch
           checked={appState.debug}
diff --git a/src/components/ExternalLink.jsx b/src/components/ExternalLink.jsx
index bb1492d..d3ce472 100644
--- a/src/components/ExternalLink.jsx
+++ b/src/components/ExternalLink.jsx
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ const vfbUrl = "http://virtualflybrain.org/xref/neuronbridge/<NAME>";
 
 function VFBLink({ name }) {
   return (
-    <a href={vfbUrl.replace(/<NAME>/, name)}>
+    <a href={vfbUrl.replace(/<NAME>/, name)} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
       Virtual Fly Brain{" "}
       <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" transform="up-2" />
     </a>
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ function FlyWireLink({ tag }) {
       href={flyWireUrl
         .replace(/<ID>/, id)
         .replace(/<VERSION>/, version.replace(/^v/, ""))}
+      target="_blank"
+      rel="noopener noreferrer"
     >
       FlyWire{" "}
       <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" transform="up-2" />
@@ -61,7 +63,7 @@ export default function ExternalLink({ id, isLM, library, publishedName }) {
 
     return (
       <>
-        <a href={extUrl.replace(/<NAME>/, id)}>
+        <a href={extUrl.replace(/<NAME>/, id)} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
           {extName}{" "}
           <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" transform="up-2" />
         </a>
@@ -137,7 +139,7 @@ export default function ExternalLink({ id, isLM, library, publishedName }) {
     <>
       { !library.match(/flywire_fafb/i) ? (
         <>
-      <a href={finalEMUrl}>
+      <a href={finalEMUrl} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
         NeuPrint{" "}
         <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" transform="up-2" />
         </a><br /></>) : ""}
diff --git a/src/components/Help/HelpContents.jsx b/src/components/Help/HelpContents.jsx
index af9c967..8ec9ce4 100644
--- a/src/components/Help/HelpContents.jsx
+++ b/src/components/Help/HelpContents.jsx
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import React, { useContext, useEffect, useRef } from "react";
 import { useLocation, useHistory, Link } from "react-router-dom";
 import PropTypes from "prop-types";
 import { Typography, InputNumber, Col, Row, Divider } from "antd";
+import { faExternalLink } from "@fortawesome/pro-regular-svg-icons";
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome";
 import SearchInput from "../SearchInput";
 import { AppContext } from "../../containers/AppContext";
 import { useQuery } from "../../libs/hooksLib";
@@ -179,7 +181,7 @@ export default function HelpContents({ scroll }) {
               Raw light microscopy (LM) data collected by FlyLight is
               transformed in several ways prior to matching using color depth
               MIP search (
-              <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/318006">Otsuna et al., 2018</a>).
+              <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/318006" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Otsuna et al., 2018 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>).
               To improve matches for denser MCFO data, the color depth MIP
               approach was extended in several ways (Otsuna, et al., in
               preparation). The data generation pipeline for LM images is shown
@@ -188,8 +190,8 @@ export default function HelpContents({ scroll }) {
             <p>
               After images are aligned to a common template, we used direction
               selective local thresholding (DSLT;{" "}
-              <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.12738">
-                Kawase, et al., 2015
+              <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.12738" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+                Kawase, et al., 2015 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
               </a>
               ) to generate a 3D segmentation and create a separate color depth
               MIP for each fully connected component. These segmented MIPs were
@@ -204,8 +206,8 @@ export default function HelpContents({ scroll }) {
             </p>
             <p>
               More details are available in the {" "}
-              <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-05732-7">
-                NeuronBridge paper
+              <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-05732-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+                NeuronBridge paper <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
               </a>
               .
             </p>
@@ -224,8 +226,8 @@ export default function HelpContents({ scroll }) {
             <p>
               The EM data sets were imaged and reconstructed by the FlyEM
               Project (
-              <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57443">
-                Scheffer, et al., 2020
+              <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57443" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+                Scheffer, et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
               </a>
               ). After the imagery was registered to the JRC2018 template, we
               downloaded the reconstructed skeletons as SWC files and
@@ -336,8 +338,8 @@ export default function HelpContents({ scroll }) {
       automatically registered to a standard color depth search alignment
       template. Currently, these are JRC2018_Unisex_20x_HR (Brain) and
       JRC2018_VNC_Unisex_40x_DS (VNC) both of which are derived from the{" "}
-      <a href="https://www.janelia.org/open-science/jrc-2018-brain-templates">
-        JRC 2018 templates
+      <a href="https://www.janelia.org/open-science/jrc-2018-brain-templates" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+        JRC 2018 templates <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
       </a>
       .
       <h3 className="top-space-sm">Supported File Formats</h3>
@@ -351,8 +353,8 @@ export default function HelpContents({ scroll }) {
         The aligner provides an alignment score and a link to a verification movie. 
         The verification movie allows you to visualize the aligned stack against the template.
         The alignment score is calculated as a{" "}
-        <a href="https://martin-thoma.com/zero-mean-normalized-cross-correlation">
-          Zero Mean Normalized Cross-Correlation (ZNCC)
+        <a href="https://martin-thoma.com/zero-mean-normalized-cross-correlation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+          Zero Mean Normalized Cross-Correlation (ZNCC) <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
         </a>
         .
         This yields a number between -1 and 1, where higher scores are better. 
@@ -424,8 +426,8 @@ export default function HelpContents({ scroll }) {
           This is unrecoverable in our system. You will need to use an
           alternative method to register your data. Once you have an aligned
           image stack, use the{" "}
-          <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/ColorMIP_Mask_Search">
-            Color MIP Mask Search Fiji plugin
+          <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/ColorMIP_Mask_Search" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+            Color MIP Mask Search Fiji plugin <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
           </a>{" "}
           to generate the aligned color depth MIPs and upload those for custom
           searching.
diff --git a/src/components/HelpPage.jsx b/src/components/HelpPage.jsx
index 413679d..5b3e489 100644
--- a/src/components/HelpPage.jsx
+++ b/src/components/HelpPage.jsx
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import React from "react";
 import { Typography, Row, Col, Divider } from "antd";
+import { faExternalLink } from "@fortawesome/pro-regular-svg-icons";
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome";
 import ScrollToTopOnMount from "./ScrollToTopOnMount";
 import HelpContents from "./Help/HelpContents";
 import "./HelpPage.css";
@@ -50,8 +52,8 @@ export default function HelpPage() {
           <Title level={3}>Downloading the data</Title>
           <p>
             You can download the{" "}
-            <a href="https://www.janelia.org/open-science/color-depth-mip">
-              Color-Depth MIPs
+            <a href="https://www.janelia.org/open-science/color-depth-mip" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+              Color-Depth MIPs <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
             </a>{" "}
             for your own research.
           </p>
@@ -61,23 +63,23 @@ export default function HelpPage() {
           <Title level={3}>Programmatic API access</Title>
           <p>
             Access the images programmatically{" "}
-            <a href="https://open.quiltdata.com/b/janelia-flylight-color-depth/tree/README.md">
-              using the S3 API
+            <a href="https://open.quiltdata.com/b/janelia-flylight-color-depth/tree/README.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+              using the S3 API <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
             </a>{" "}
             on AWS Open Data.
 
             The matches are also available on S3, in a{" "}
-            <a href="https://open.quiltdata.com/b/janelia-neuronbridge-data-prod/tree/">different bucket</a>.
+            <a href="https://open.quiltdata.com/b/janelia-neuronbridge-data-prod/tree/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">different bucket <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>.
           </p>
           <p>
-            You can also use <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/neuronbridge-python">Python API</a> to access the matches and images using Python.
+            You can also use <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/neuronbridge-python" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Python API <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a> to access the matches and images using Python.
           </p>
 
           <Divider />
           <a className="anchorOffset" id="tools" href="#tools">#tools</a>
           <Title level={3}>Third-party tools</Title>
           <Typography>
-            <a href="http://natverse.org/neuronbridger/">neuronbridger</a> - R
+            <a href="http://natverse.org/neuronbridger/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">neuronbridger <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a> - R
             library for interacting with the NeuronBridge.
           </Typography>
         </Col>
diff --git a/src/components/ImageCollections.jsx b/src/components/ImageCollections.jsx
index 0b33057..b4230bf 100644
--- a/src/components/ImageCollections.jsx
+++ b/src/components/ImageCollections.jsx
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import React, { useContext, useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import { Typography, Table, message } from "antd";
 import { Auth, Storage } from "aws-amplify";
+import { faExternalLink } from "@fortawesome/pro-regular-svg-icons";
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome";
 import { AppContext } from "../containers/AppContext";
 import { libraryFormatter } from "../libs/utils";
 
@@ -168,7 +170,7 @@ export default function ImageCollections() {
           const { id, refName } = doi;
           return (
             <span key={id}>
-              <a href={`https://doi.org/${id}`}>{refName}</a>
+              <a href={`https://doi.org/${id}`} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">{refName} <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
               {index < doisList.length - 1 ? ', ' : ''}
             </span>
           );
diff --git a/src/components/Landing.jsx b/src/components/Landing.jsx
index 1547ebc..8c845b6 100644
--- a/src/components/Landing.jsx
+++ b/src/components/Landing.jsx
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import React from "react";
 import PropTypes from "prop-types";
 import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
 import { Typography, Col, Row } from "antd";
+import { faExternalLink } from "@fortawesome/pro-regular-svg-icons";
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome";
 import SearchInput from "./SearchInput";
 import { isInternalSite } from "../libs/utils";
 import "./Landing.css";
@@ -41,13 +43,13 @@ function Landing(props) {
             <Paragraph>
               Search light and electron microscopy data sets of the Drosophila
               nervous system provided by the{" "}
-              <a href="https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flylight">
-                FlyLight
+              <a href="https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flylight" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+                FlyLight <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
               </a>{" "}
-              and <a href="https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flyem">FlyEM</a>{" "}
+              and <a href="https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flyem" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FlyEM <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>{" "}
               projects at{" "}
-              <a href="https://www.janelia.org">Janelia Research Campus</a>, as well
-              as other public connectomic data sets. 
+              <a href="https://www.janelia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Janelia Research Campus <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>, as well
+              as other public connectomic data sets.
               You can find similar neurons based on shape regardless of data set.
             </Paragraph>
 
@@ -67,16 +69,16 @@ function Landing(props) {
             <Row className="collections">
               <Col span={12}>
                 <b>Light Microscopy</b><br/>
-                <a href="http://gen1mcfo.janelia.org/cgi-bin/gen1mcfo.cgi">FlyLight Generation 1 MCFO</a><br/>
-                <a href="http://splitgal4.janelia.org">FlyLight Split-GAL4</a><br/>
-                <a href="https://flylight-raw.janelia.org/cgi-bin/raw.cgi">FlyLight Split-GAL4 Omnibus Broad</a><br/>
+                <a href="http://gen1mcfo.janelia.org/cgi-bin/gen1mcfo.cgi" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FlyLight Generation 1 MCFO <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a><br/>
+                <a href="http://splitgal4.janelia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FlyLight Split-GAL4 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a><br/>
+                <a href="https://flylight-raw.janelia.org/cgi-bin/raw.cgi" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FlyLight Split-GAL4 Omnibus Broad <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a><br/>
               </Col>
               <Col span={12}>
                 <b>Electron Microscopy</b><br/>
-                <a href="https://neuprint.janelia.org/?dataset=male-cns:v0.9&qt=findneurons"> FlyEM Male CNS</a><br/>
-                <a href="https://neuprint.janelia.org/?dataset=hemibrain%3Av1.2.1&qt=findneurons">FlyEM Hemibrain</a><br/>
-                <a href="https://neuprint.janelia.org/?dataset=manc%3Av1.0&qt=findneurons">FlyEM MANC</a><br/>
-                <a href="https://codex.flywire.ai">FlyWire Brain</a><br/>
+                <a href="https://neuprint.janelia.org/?dataset=male-cns:v0.9&qt=findneurons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> FlyEM Male CNS <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a><br/>
+                <a href="https://neuprint.janelia.org/?dataset=hemibrain%3Av1.2.1&qt=findneurons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FlyEM Hemibrain <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a><br/>
+                <a href="https://neuprint.janelia.org/?dataset=manc%3Av1.0&qt=findneurons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FlyEM MANC <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a><br/>
+                <a href="https://codex.flywire.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FlyWire Brain <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a><br/>
               </Col>
             </Row>
 
@@ -85,7 +87,7 @@ function Landing(props) {
               search algorithms across image collections. You can also
               upload your own image to run a custom Color Depth MIP search (see About
               page). For NBLAST searching, try{" "}
-              <a href="https://www.virtualflybrain.org">Virtual Fly Brain</a>.
+              <a href="https://www.virtualflybrain.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Virtual Fly Brain <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>.
             </Paragraph>
 
             <Paragraph>
diff --git a/src/components/MatchModal/Citations.jsx b/src/components/MatchModal/Citations.jsx
index 72d66ad..de59aea 100644
--- a/src/components/MatchModal/Citations.jsx
+++ b/src/components/MatchModal/Citations.jsx
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import React from "react";
 import PropTypes from "prop-types";
 import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
 import { Row, Col } from "antd";
+import { faExternalLink } from "@fortawesome/pro-regular-svg-icons";
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome";
 import MatchReferences from "../MatchReferences";
 import LibraryFormatter from "../LibraryFormatter";
 
@@ -40,8 +42,8 @@ export default function Citations({ match, mask, matchRank, matchesTotal }) {
         <h3>Cite NeuronBridge</h3>
         <ul>
           <li>
-            <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-05732-7">
-              Clements et al., 2024
+            <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-05732-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+              Clements et al., 2024 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
             </a>
           </li>
         </ul>
diff --git a/src/components/MatchModal/Download3D.jsx b/src/components/MatchModal/Download3D.jsx
index 6be35ff..4b711d2 100644
--- a/src/components/MatchModal/Download3D.jsx
+++ b/src/components/MatchModal/Download3D.jsx
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import { useParams } from "react-router-dom";
 import { Row, Col, Typography } from "antd";
 import FileImageOutlined from "@ant-design/icons/FileImageOutlined";
 import FileExclamationOutlined from "@ant-design/icons/FileExclamationOutlined";
+import { faExternalLink } from "@fortawesome/pro-regular-svg-icons";
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome";
 import ViewIn3DButton from "./ViewIn3DButton";
 
 const { Title, Text, Paragraph } = Typography;
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ export default function Download3D(props) {
       )}
       <h3>
         For a 3D comparison with more features, use the{" "}
-        <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/VVDViewer">VVDViewer </a>
+        <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/VVDViewer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">VVDViewer <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
         desktop application.
       </h3>
       <Row gutter={{ xs: 8, sm: 16, md: 24, lg: 32 }}>
@@ -100,13 +102,13 @@ export default function Download3D(props) {
           <ol>
             <li>
               Download the latest release of VVDViewer from{" "}
-              <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/VVDViewer/releases">
-                https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/VVDViewer/releases
+              <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/VVDViewer/releases" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+                https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/VVDViewer/releases <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
               </a>
             </li>
             <li>
               Usage instructions for VVDViewer can be found{" "}
-              <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/VVDViewer/wiki">here</a>.
+              <a href="https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/VVDViewer/wiki" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>.
             </li>
           </ol>
         </Col>
diff --git a/src/components/NoSearch.jsx b/src/components/NoSearch.jsx
index 8b8693a..db536db 100644
--- a/src/components/NoSearch.jsx
+++ b/src/components/NoSearch.jsx
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import React from "react";
 import PropTypes from "prop-types";
 import { Typography, Divider } from "antd";
+import { faExternalLink } from "@fortawesome/pro-regular-svg-icons";
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome";
 import HelpButton from "./Help/HelpButton";
 
 const { Title, Paragraph } = Typography;
@@ -17,15 +19,15 @@ export default function NoSearch({ filters }) {
       <Title level={3}>Not sure what to search for?</Title>
       <Paragraph>
         You can search for line names on the{" "}
-        <a href="http://splitgal4.janelia.org">Split-GAL4</a> or{" "}
-        <a href="http://gen1mcfo.janelia.org/cgi-bin/gen1mcfo.cgi">
-          Generation 1 MCFO
+        <a href="http://splitgal4.janelia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Split-GAL4 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a> or{" "}
+        <a href="http://gen1mcfo.janelia.org/cgi-bin/gen1mcfo.cgi" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
+          Generation 1 MCFO <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" />
         </a>{" "}
         websites.
       </Paragraph>
       <Paragraph>
         Explore neurons on the{" "}
-        <a href="https://neuprint.janelia.org">neuPrint</a> website.
+        <a href="https://neuprint.janelia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">neuPrint <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a> website.
       </Paragraph>
       <Title level={3}>Search Help</Title>
       <p>
diff --git a/src/components/References.jsx b/src/components/References.jsx
index cab41c3..d2876f1 100644
--- a/src/components/References.jsx
+++ b/src/components/References.jsx
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 import React from "react";
+import { faExternalLink } from "@fortawesome/pro-regular-svg-icons";
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome";
 import "./References.css";
 
 export default function References() {
@@ -7,199 +9,199 @@ export default function References() {
 
       <dt>NeuronBridge</dt>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-05732-7">Clements et al., 2024</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-05732-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Clements et al., 2024 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
 
       <dt>Neuron matching algorithms</dt>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/318006">Otsuna et al., 2018</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/318006" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Otsuna et al., 2018 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.23.453511">Hirsch et al., 2020</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.23.453511" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hirsch et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.23.453511">Mais et al., 2021</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.23.453511" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mais et al., 2021 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
 
       <dt>Gen1 MCFO collection</dt>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.80660">Meissner et al., 2023</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.80660" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Meissner et al., 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
 
       <dt>EM Hemibrain</dt>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57443">Scheffer et al., 2020</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57443" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scheffer et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
 
       <dt>Gen1 GAL4 collections</dt>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2012.09.011">Jenett et al., 2012; for Janelia Gen1 GAL4</a>
+        <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2012.09.011" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jenett et al., 2012; for Janelia Gen1 GAL4 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/198648">Tirian and Dickson, 2017; for VT Gen1 GAL4</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/198648" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tirian and Dickson, 2017; for VT Gen1 GAL4 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.300682"> Dionne et al., 2018; for Janelia hemidrivers</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.300682" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Dionne et al., 2018; for Janelia hemidrivers <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/198648">Tirian and Dickson, 2017; for VT hemidrivers</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/198648" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tirian and Dickson, 2017; for VT hemidrivers <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
 
       <dt>EM-LM unification template</dt>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236495">Bogovic et al., 2020</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236495" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bogovic et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
 
       <dt>Split-GAL4 Lines</dt>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.05.024">Tuthill et al., 2013</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.05.024" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tuthill et al., 2013 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04577">Aso et al., 2014</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04577" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aso et al., 2014 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21022">Wu et al., 2016</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21022" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wu et al., 2016 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08758'>Hampel et al., 2015</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08758' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hampel et al., 2015 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.16135">Aso & Rubin, 2016</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.16135" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aso & Rubin, 2016 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.06.032">Robie et al., 2017</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.06.032" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Robie et al., 2017 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24626">Klapoetke et al., 2017</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24626" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Klapoetke et al., 2017 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34272">Namiki et al., 2018</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34272" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Namiki et al., 2018 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.24512">Wolff & Rubin 2018</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.24512" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wolff & Rubin 2018 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43079">Dolan et al., 2019</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43079" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dolan et al., 2019 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau8302">Gao et al., 2019</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau8302" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gao et al., 2019 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2055-9">Wang et al., 2020</a>
-      </dd> 
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2055-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wang et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
+      </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.57685'>Morimoto et al., 2020</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.57685' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Morimoto et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.50901'>Davis et al., 2020</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.50901' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Davis et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.083'>Wang et al., 2020</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.083' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wang et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.08.006'>Turner-Evans et al., 2020</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.08.006' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Turner-Evans et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2972-7'>Wang et al., 2020</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2972-7' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wang et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58942'>Schretter et al., 2020</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58942' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Schretter et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19936-x'>Feng et al., 2020</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19936-x' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Feng et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236495'>Bogovic et al., 2020</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236495' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bogovic et al., 2020 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.23.453511'>Mais et al., 2021</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.23.453511' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mais et al., 2021 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71679'>Sterne et al., 2021</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71679' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sterne et al., 2021 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.008'>Namiki et al., 2022</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.008' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Namiki et al., 2022 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71858'>Kind et al., 2021</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71858' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kind et al., 2021 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66039'>Hulse et al., 2021</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66039' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hulse et al., 2021 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.03.467132'>Longden et al., 2021</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.03.467132' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Longden et al., 2021 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.02.013'>Klapoetke et al., 2022</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.02.013' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Klapoetke et al., 2022 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.019'>Baker et al., 2022</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.019' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Baker et al., 2022 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.071'>Cheong et al., 2023</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.071' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cheong et al., 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.07.543976'>Cheong et al., 2023</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.07.543976' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cheong et al., 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.31.542897'>Ehrhardt et al., 2023</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.31.542897' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ehrhardt et al., 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.90523'>Rubin & Aso, 2023</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.90523' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rubin & Aso, 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.25378/janelia.23726103'>Minegishi, Ryo et al., 2023</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.25378/janelia.23726103' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Minegishi, Ryo et al., 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06271-6'>Vijayan et al., 2023</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06271-6' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vijayan et al., 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.020'>Yoo et al., 2023</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.020' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yoo et al., 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.21.546024'>Isaacson et al., 2023</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.21.546024' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Isaacson et al., 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81248'>Lillvis et al., 2022</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81248' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lillvis et al., 2022 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.30.555537'>Lillvis et al., 2023</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.30.555537' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lillvis et al., 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.09.574419'>Meissner et al., 2024</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.09.574419' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Meissner et al., 2024 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08255-6'>Schretter et al., 2024</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08255-6' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Schretter et al., 2024 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07222-5'>Gorko et al., 2024</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07222-5' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gorko et al., 2024 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.16.589741'>Nern et al., 2024</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.16.589741' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nern et al., 2024 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.21.619448'>Wolff et al., 2024</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.21.619448' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wolff et al., 2024 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.22.639679'>Zung et al., 2025</a>
+        <a href='https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.22.639679' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zung et al., 2025 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
 
       <dt>Raw (uncurated) Split-GAL4 Lines</dt>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.09.574419">Meissner et al., 2024</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.09.574419" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Meissner et al., 2024 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
 
       <dt>FlyWire</dt>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.27.546656">Dorkenwald et al., 2023</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.27.546656" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dorkenwald et al., 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.27.546055">Schlegel et al., 2023</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.27.546055" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Schlegel et al., 2023 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
 
       <dt>Male CNS</dt>
       <dd>
-        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.09.680999">Berg et al., 2025</a>
+        <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.09.680999" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Berg et al., 2025 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faExternalLink} size="xs" /></a>
       </dd>
 
     </dl>