diff --git a/docs/content/templates/list.md b/docs/content/templates/list.md
index 575c8b229..7a4b6443f 100644
--- a/docs/content/templates/list.md
+++ b/docs/content/templates/list.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ A Taxonomy will be rendered at /`PLURAL`/`TERM`/
 
 A Section’s RSS will be rendered at /`SECTION`/index.xml
 
-*Hugo ships with its own ATOM 2.0 RSS template. In most cases this will
+*Hugo ships with its own [RSS 2.0][] template. In most cases this will
 be sufficient, and an RSS template will not need to be provided by the
 user.*
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ can have different RSS files for each section and taxonomy.
 
 A Taxonomy’s RSS will be rendered at /`PLURAL`/`TERM`/index.xml
 
-*Hugo ships with its own ATOM 2.0 RSS template. In most cases this will
+*Hugo ships with its own [RSS 2.0][] template. In most cases this will
 be sufficient, and an RSS template will not need to be provided by the
 user.*
 
@@ -387,3 +387,6 @@ If `where` or `first` receives invalid input or a field name that doesn’t exis
 These are both template functions and work on not only
 [lists](/templates/list/), but [taxonomies](/taxonomies/displaying/),
 [terms](/templates/terms/) and [groups](/templates/list/).
+
+
+[RSS 2.0]: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html "RSS 2.0 Specification"
diff --git a/docs/content/templates/rss.md b/docs/content/templates/rss.md
index a31b1ad7a..a17b40d5e 100644
--- a/docs/content/templates/rss.md
+++ b/docs/content/templates/rss.md
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ weight: 90
 
 Like all other templates, you can use a single RSS template to generate
 all of your RSS feeds, or you can create a specific template for each
-individual feed. Unlike other templates, *Hugo ships with its own ATOM
-2.0 RSS template. In most cases this will be sufficient, and an RSS
+individual feed. Unlike other templates, *Hugo ships with its own
+[RSS 2.0 template](#the-embedded-rss-xml:eceb479b7b3b2077408a2878a29e1320).
+In most cases this will be sufficient, and an RSS
 template will not need to be provided by the user.*
 
 RSS pages are of the type "node" and have all the [node
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ will be included in the RSS output. Example values are provided.
 
 ## The Embedded rss.xml
 This is the RSS template that ships with Hugo. It adheres to the
-ATOM 2.0 Spec.
+[RSS 2.0 Specification][RSS 2.0].
 
     <rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
       <channel>
@@ -98,3 +99,6 @@ ATOM 2.0 Spec.
 on render… please don't include this in the template as it's not valid HTML.*
 
     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
+
+
+[RSS 2.0]: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html "RSS 2.0 Specification"