diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2ffd013a..e3ee11f4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -358,12 +358,14 @@ Differences from `query()`:
     queries against; the database does not have to contain any data but must be the same
     kind (MySQL, Postgres, etc.) and have the same schema as the database you will be connecting to at runtime.
 
-    For convenience, you can use a .env file to set DATABASE_URL so that you don't have to pass it every time:
+    For convenience, you can use [a `.env` file][dotenv] to set DATABASE_URL so that you don't have to pass it every time:
 
     ```
     DATABASE_URL=mysql://localhost/my_database
     ```
 
+[dotenv]: https://github.com/dotenv-rs/dotenv#examples
+
 The biggest downside to `query!()` is that the output type cannot be named (due to Rust not
 officially supporting anonymous records). To address that, there is a `query_as!()` macro that is 
 mostly identical except that you can name the output type.