diff --git a/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst b/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst
index f9936a498..2119cb8f8 100644
--- a/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Link Extractors
 
 A link extractor is an object that extracts links from responses.
 
-The constructor of :class:`~scrapy.linkextractors.lxmlhtml.LxmlLinkExtractor`
-takes settings that determine which links may be extracted.
-:class:`LxmlLinkExtractor.extract_links
+The ``__init__`` method of
+:class:`~scrapy.linkextractors.lxmlhtml.LxmlLinkExtractor` takes settings that
+determine which links may be extracted. :class:`LxmlLinkExtractor.extract_links
 <scrapy.linkextractors.lxmlhtml.LxmlLinkExtractor.extract_links>` returns a
 list of matching :class:`scrapy.link.Link` objects from a
 :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object.
diff --git a/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py b/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
index 41091ba23..37003720f 100644
--- a/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
+++ b/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ class LxmlLinkExtractor(FilteringLinkExtractor):
         """Returns a list of :class:`~scrapy.link.Link` objects from the
         specified :class:`response <scrapy.http.Response>`.
 
-        Only links that match the settings passed to the link extractor
-        constructor are returned.
+        Only links that match the settings passed to the ``__init__`` method of
+        the link extractor are returned.
 
         Duplicate links are omitted.
         """