diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 3d680a55..51f73f3d 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ numpydoc -- Numpy's Sphinx extensions
 =====================================
 
 This package provides the ``numpydoc`` Sphinx extension for handling
-docstrings formatted according to the `NumPy documentation format
-<https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt>`__.
+docstrings formatted according to the NumPy documentation format.
 The extension also adds the code description directives
 ``np:function``, ``np-c:function``, etc.
 
diff --git a/numpydoc/numpydoc.py b/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
index 2b259af3..763c022d 100644
--- a/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
+++ b/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 - Extract the signature from the docstring, if it can't be determined
   otherwise.
 
-.. [1] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt
+.. [1] https://github.com/numpy/numpydoc
 
 """
 from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function