diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
index 2d8aa50..ba21117 100644
--- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@
       cfgparser.optionxform = str
 
    Note that when reading configuration files, whitespace around the
-   option names are stripped before :meth:``optionxform`` is called.
+   option names are stripped before :meth:`optionxform` is called.
 
 
 .. _configparser-objects: