diff --git a/docs/project_info/contributing.rst b/docs/project_info/contributing.rst
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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Contributing a new cluster or cloud execution backend
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 Execution backends are added by implementing a so-called ``Executor``.
-All executors are located in `snakemake/executors.py <https://github.com/snakemake/snakemake/tree/main/snakemake/executors.py>`_.
+All executors are located in `snakemake/executors/ <https://github.com/snakemake/snakemake/tree/main/snakemake/executors>`_.
 In order to implement a new executor, you have to inherit from the class ``ClusterExecutor``.
 Below you find a skeleton