diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
index 6bafbe70825..d24924e4f41 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -983,8 +983,8 @@ XMLParser Objects
    .. method:: close()
 
       Finishes feeding data to the parser.  Returns the result of calling the
-      `close` method of the *target* passed during construction; by default,
-      this is the toplevel document element.
+      :meth:`~TreeBuilder.close` method of the *target* passed during
+      construction; by default, this is the toplevel document element.
 
 
    .. method:: doctype(name, pubid, system)