diff --git a/docs/api.rst b/docs/api.rst
index 8963a74b..f98ffcdd 100644
--- a/docs/api.rst
+++ b/docs/api.rst
@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ Incoming Request Data
    .. attribute:: base_url
    .. attribute:: url_root
 
-      Provides different ways to look at the current
-      `IRI<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987>`_.  Imagine your
-      application is listening on the following application root::
+      Provides different ways to look at the current `IRI
+      <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987>`_.  Imagine your application is
+      listening on the following application root::
 
           http://www.example.com/myapplication