diff --git a/docs/topics/spiders.rst b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
index dd2f60ba0..4d5f7ed82 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spiders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ BaseSpider
        the same requirements as the :class:`BaseSpider` class.
 
        This method, as well as any other Request callback, must return an
-       iterable of :class:`~scrapy.http.Request~ and/or
+       iterable of :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` and/or
        :class:`~scrapy.item.Item` objects.
 
        :param response: the response to parse