diff --git a/docs/licenses.rst b/docs/licenses.rst
index c7bf9433..c3a13904 100644
--- a/docs/licenses.rst
+++ b/docs/licenses.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Licenses
 ********
 
-For a list of contributors, see :ref:`authors`. For details on who have
+For a list of contributors, see :doc:`authors`. For details on who have
 contributed what, please refer to our git repository.
 
 Source code license