diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index ba2ae83642a5fd..051e76c440ca57 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ Connection objects
 
       Call this method from a different thread to abort any queries that might
       be executing on the connection.
-      Aborted queries will raise an exception.
+      Aborted queries will raise an :exc:`OperationalError`.
 
 
    .. method:: set_authorizer(authorizer_callback)