diff --git a/README b/README
index 5e95dafa5..a4c61eb95 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ also make it easy to provide links from one section of a document to
 another. A link to this section, for example, might look like this:
 
     See the section on
-    [header identifiers][#header-identifiers-in-html].
+    [header identifiers](#header-identifiers-in-html).
 
 Note, however, that this method of providing links to sections works
 only in HTML, LaTeX, and ConTeXt formats.