diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2b2c71bb3ab0cec5d2914dd463297ecac3d8fb15..4e0e33fcfb5387d2bb3a52b2205ed7079674f315 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,14 +2,13 @@ Package: bayesmeta
 Type: Package
 Title: Bayesian Random-Effects Meta-Analysis
 Version: 2.3
-Date: 2018-09-27
-Authors@R: c(person("Christian", "Roever", role=c("aut","cre"), 
+Date: 2018-10-11
+Authors@R: c(person(given="Christian", family="Roever", role=c("aut","cre"), 
                     email="christian.roever@med.uni-goettingen.de",
                     comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-6911-698X")),
-             person("Tim", "Friede", role="ctb",
+             person(given="Tim", family="Friede", role="ctb",
                     email="tim.friede@med.uni-goettingen.de",
                     comment=c(ORCID="0000-0001-5347-7441")))
-Author: Christian Roever [aut, cre], Tim Friede [ctb]
 Maintainer: Christian Roever <christian.roever@med.uni-goettingen.de>
 Depends: forestplot (>= 1.6), metafor (>= 2.0-0)
 Suggests: compute.es, knitr, rmarkdown, R.rsp
diff --git a/man/Cochran1954.Rd b/man/Cochran1954.Rd
index 2e7cb279fc81d333c3de7c463e877bc6d77d9b8a..84d3c59344c969ce8d233346466ed770658a5187 100644
--- a/man/Cochran1954.Rd
+++ b/man/Cochran1954.Rd
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@
     inspection of table 9 suggests no such bias, the data will serve
     to illustrate the application of partial weighting.} 
 }
-\source{W.G. Cochran. \href{http://doi.org/10.2307/3001666}{The
-    combination of estimates from different experiments}.
+\source{W.G. Cochran. The combination of estimates from different experiments.
     \emph{Biometrics}, \bold{10}(1):101-129, 1954.}
 \examples{
 data("Cochran1954")
diff --git a/man/Rubin1981.Rd b/man/Rubin1981.Rd
index 8a453d511a1f7b71dc93707f4a2f683536b2348d..a3eb70d9a7d4711d63f9f5a632e83133b7db623e 100644
--- a/man/Rubin1981.Rd
+++ b/man/Rubin1981.Rd
@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@
 \source{A. Gelman, J.B. Carlin, H. Stern, and D.B. Rubin.
   \emph{Bayesian data analysis}. Chapman & Hall / CRC, Boca Raton, 1997.} 
 \references{
-  D.B. Rubin. \href{http://doi.org/10.2307/1164617}{Estimation
-    in parallel randomized experiments}.
+  D.B. Rubin. Estimation in parallel randomized experiments.
   \emph{Journal of Educational Statistics}, \bold{6}(4):377-401, 1981.
 
   A. Gelman. Prior distributions for variance parameters in hierarchical
diff --git a/man/bayesmeta-package.Rd b/man/bayesmeta-package.Rd
index ef6025121dbbb13940b9e6f9624ce1d1b411fd64..0372057775d3ef76defcde39c10cb720bfe6d5f4 100644
--- a/man/bayesmeta-package.Rd
+++ b/man/bayesmeta-package.Rd
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     Package: \tab bayesmeta\cr
     Type:    \tab Package\cr
     Version: \tab 2.3\cr
-    Date:    \tab 2018-09-27\cr
+    Date:    \tab 2018-10-11\cr
     License: \tab GPL (>=2)
   }
   The main functionality is provided by the \code{\link{bayesmeta}()}