diff --git a/doc/man/sphinx-apidoc.rst b/doc/man/sphinx-apidoc.rst
index 8f75d6f7c..97135d98e 100644
--- a/doc/man/sphinx-apidoc.rst
+++ b/doc/man/sphinx-apidoc.rst
@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ style of other automatic API documentation tools.
 
 *MODULE_PATH* is the path to a Python package to document, and *OUTPUT_PATH* is
 the directory where the generated sources are placed. Any *EXCLUDE_PATTERN*\s
-given are `fnmatch-style <fnmatch>`_ file and/or directory patterns that will
-be excluded from generation.
+given are `fnmatch-style`_ file and/or directory patterns that will be excluded
+from generation.
+
+.. _fnmatch-style: https://docs.python.org/3/library/fnmatch.html
 
 .. warning::