diff --git a/project/Docs.scala b/project/Docs.scala
index 8a55639be..f01912ad1 100644
--- a/project/Docs.scala
+++ b/project/Docs.scala
@@ -59,16 +59,20 @@ object Docs
 		site.addMappingsToSiteDir(mappings in sxr, prefix)
 	)
 
-	def sphinxEnvironmentVariables = (scalaVersion, version) map { (scalaV, sbtV) =>
-		// major.minor
+	def sphinxEnvironmentVariables = (scalaVersion, version, isSnapshot) map { (scalaV, sbtV, snap) =>
+		// sphinx's terminology: major.minor
 		def release(v: String): String = CrossVersion.partialVersion(v) match {
 			case Some((major,minor)) => major + "." + minor
 			case None => v
 		}
+		val siteVersion = sbtV.takeWhile(_ != '-')
+		val siteSourceVersion = if(snap) release(siteVersion) else siteVersion
+		val siteSourceBase = s"https://github.com/sbt/sbt/raw/$siteSourceVersion/src/sphinx/"
 		Map[String,String](
 			"sbt.full.version" -> sbtV,
 			"sbt.partial.version" -> release(sbtV),
-			"sbt.site.version" -> sbtV.takeWhile(_ != '-'),
+			"sbt.site.version" -> siteVersion,
+			"sbt.site.source.base" -> siteSourceBase,
 			"sbt.binary.version" -> CrossVersion.binarySbtVersion(sbtV),
 			"scala.full.version" -> scalaV,
 			"scala.partial.version" -> release(scalaV),
diff --git a/src/sphinx/_sphinx/exts/srcref.py b/src/sphinx/_sphinx/exts/srcref.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b858d740a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/sphinx/_sphinx/exts/srcref.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+from docutils import nodes
+from sphinx.util.nodes import set_source_info
+from sphinx.util.osutil import relative_uri
+import os
+
+# This role inserts a link to the source rST on GitHub.
+def srcref(name, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options={}, content=[]):
+    srcPath = inliner.document.settings.env.docname
+    srcUri = "%s%s.rst" % (os.environ['sbt.site.source.base'], srcPath)
+    refNode = nodes.reference('', 'Source for this page', internal=False, refuri=srcUri)
+    spanNode = nodes.paragraph()
+    spanNode.append(refNode)
+    spanNode['classes'].append('page-source')
+    return [spanNode], []
+
+# register the role
+def setup(app):
+    app.add_role('srcref', srcref)
+
diff --git a/src/sphinx/_sphinx/themes/sbt/static/docs.css b/src/sphinx/_sphinx/themes/sbt/static/docs.css
index 274c0b875..7c8b0f386 100644
--- a/src/sphinx/_sphinx/themes/sbt/static/docs.css
+++ b/src/sphinx/_sphinx/themes/sbt/static/docs.css
@@ -219,4 +219,8 @@ input#search-input {
 }
 .breadcrumb li select option {
     font-weight: normal;
+}
+.page-source {
+    margin-top: 20px;
+    text-align: center;
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/sphinx/conf.py b/src/sphinx/conf.py
index b98ca19a1..6ea043d06 100644
--- a/src/sphinx/conf.py
+++ b/src/sphinx/conf.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import sys, os
 
 sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('_sphinx/exts'))
-extensions = ['sphinxcontrib.issuetracker', 'sphinx.ext.extlinks', 'howto', 'codeliteral', 'key']
+extensions = ['sphinxcontrib.issuetracker', 'sphinx.ext.extlinks', 'howto', 'codeliteral', 'key', 'srcref']
 
 # Project variables
 
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ launcher_release_base = typesafe_ivy_releases + 'org.scala-sbt/sbt-launch/'
 launcher_snapshots_base = typesafe_ivy_snapshots + 'org.scala-sbt/sbt-launch/'
 sbt_native_package_base = 'http://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/sbt-native-packages/org/scala-sbt/sbt/'
 
-
 rst_epilog = """
 .. |scalaVersion| replace:: %(scalaVersion)s
 .. |scalaRelease| replace:: %(scalaRelease)s
@@ -96,6 +95,8 @@ rst_epilog = """
 .. _sbt-launcher-package: https://github.com/sbt/sbt-launcher-package
 .. _Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/sbt
 .. _source code: http://github.com/sbt/sbt
+
+:srcref:`ignored`
 """ % {
    'launcher_release_base': launcher_release_base,
    'launcher_snapshots_base': launcher_snapshots_base,
@@ -105,5 +106,3 @@ rst_epilog = """
    'scalaVersion': scalaVersion,
    'release': release
 }
-
-