diff --git a/docs/src/whatsnew/1.4.rst b/docs/src/whatsnew/1.4.rst
index 24a98488af..87903bacea 100644
--- a/docs/src/whatsnew/1.4.rst
+++ b/docs/src/whatsnew/1.4.rst
@@ -116,11 +116,9 @@ For example::
 Iris-Pandas Interoperability
 ----------------------------
 
-Conversion to and from Pandas Series_ and DataFrames_ is now available.
-See :mod:`iris.pandas` for more details.
-
-.. _Series: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/series.html
-.. _DataFrames: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/frame.html
+Conversion to and from Pandas :class:`~pandas.Series` and
+:class:`~pandas.DataFrame` is now available. See :mod:`iris.pandas` for more
+details.
 
 
 .. _load-opendap: