diff --git a/doc/invocation.rst b/doc/invocation.rst
index 59bb5108c..28a7e10c7 100644
--- a/doc/invocation.rst
+++ b/doc/invocation.rst
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ The :program:`sphinx-apidoc` script has several options:
 
 .. option:: --implicit-namespaces
 
-   By default `sphinx-apidoc` processes sys.path searching for modules only.
+   By default sphinx-apidoc processes sys.path searching for modules only.
    Python 3.3 introduced :pep:`420` implicit namespaces that allow module path
    structures such as `foo/bar/module.py` or `foo/bar/baz/__init__.py`
    (notice that `bar` and `foo` are namespaces, not modules).