diff --git a/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/authorization/acls.adoc b/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/authorization/acls.adoc
index b78d6e34c7..4fe20450fb 100644
--- a/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/authorization/acls.adoc
+++ b/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/authorization/acls.adoc
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ This should therefore work with all major databases.
 At the time of writing, the system had been successfully tested using Hypersonic SQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
 
 Two samples ship with Spring Security that demonstrate the ACL module.
-The first is the Contacts Sample, and the other is the Document Management System (DMS) Sample.
+The first is the {gh-samples-url}/servlet/xml/java/contacts[Contacts Sample], and the other is the {gh-samples-url}/servlet/xml/java/dms[Document Management System (DMS) Sample].
 We suggest taking a look over these for examples.
 
 
diff --git a/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/authorization/expression-based.adoc b/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/authorization/expression-based.adoc
index 76d5f0ae5a..0fc34842d8 100644
--- a/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/authorization/expression-based.adoc
+++ b/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/authorization/expression-based.adoc
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ Their use is enabled through the `global-method-security` namespace element:
 
 ===== Access Control using @PreAuthorize and @PostAuthorize
 The most obviously useful annotation is `@PreAuthorize` which decides whether a method can actually be invoked or not.
-For example (from the "Contacts" sample application)
+For example (from the {gh-samples-url}/servlet/xml/java/contacts[Contacts] sample application)
 
 ====
 .Java
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ This would look something like this:
 
 Where `myPermissionEvaluator` is the bean which implements `PermissionEvaluator`.
 Usually this will be the implementation from the ACL module which is called `AclPermissionEvaluator`.
-See the "Contacts" sample application configuration for more details.
+See the {gh-samples-url}/servlet/xml/java/contacts[Contacts] sample application configuration for more details.
 
 ===== Method Security Meta Annotations