diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 63e361ff..87c97c11 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# v0.3.2
+* `structopt` does not replace `:` with `, ` inside "author" strings while inside `<...>`.
+  Fixes [#156](https://github.com/TeXitoi/structopt/issues/156)
+
 # v0.3.1 (2019-09-06)
 
 * Fix error messages ([#241](https://github.com/TeXitoi/structopt/issues/241))
diff --git a/structopt-derive/src/attrs.rs b/structopt-derive/src/attrs.rs
index d05e4dd7..1ff0023e 100644
--- a/structopt-derive/src/attrs.rs
+++ b/structopt-derive/src/attrs.rs
@@ -648,7 +648,27 @@ pub fn sub_type(t: &syn::Type) -> Option<&syn::Type> {
     }
 }
 
-/// replace all `:` with `, `
+/// replace all `:` with `, ` when not inside the `<>`
+///
+/// `"author1:author2:author3" => "author1, author2, author3"`
+/// `"author1 <http://website1.com>:author2" => "author1 <http://website1.com>, author2"
 fn process_author_str(author: &str) -> String {
-    author.replace(":", ", ")
+    let mut res = String::with_capacity(author.len());
+    let mut inside_angle_braces = 0usize;
+
+    for ch in author.chars() {
+        if inside_angle_braces > 0 && ch == '>' {
+            inside_angle_braces -= 1;
+            res.push(ch);
+        } else if ch == '<' {
+            inside_angle_braces += 1;
+            res.push(ch);
+        } else if inside_angle_braces == 0 && ch == ':' {
+            res.push_str(", ");
+        } else {
+            res.push(ch);
+        }
+    }
+
+    res
 }