diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst
index b08977ef56be43..02c3e0336d3451 100644
--- a/Doc/library/typing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst
@@ -1588,7 +1588,7 @@ These are not used in annotations. They are building blocks for creating generic
         methods, not their type signatures. For example, :class:`ssl.SSLObject`
         is a class, therefore it passes an :func:`issubclass`
         check against :data:`Callable`.  However, the
-        :meth:`ssl.SSLObject.__init__` method exists only to raise a
+        ``ssl.SSLObject.__init__`` method exists only to raise a
         :exc:`TypeError` with a more informative message, therefore making
         it impossible to call (instantiate) :class:`ssl.SSLObject`.