diff --git a/docs/topics/spiders.rst b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
index a05a4b14d..aae3bb9ba 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spiders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
@@ -261,8 +261,9 @@ Return multiple Requests and items from a single callback:
             for href in response.xpath("//a/@href").getall():
                 yield scrapy.Request(response.urljoin(href), self.parse)
 
-Instead of :attr:`~.start_urls` you can use :meth:`~.start` directly;
-to give data more structure you can use :class:`~scrapy.Item` objects:
+Instead of :attr:`~.start_urls` you can use :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.start`
+directly; to give data more structure you can use :class:`~scrapy.Item`
+objects:
 
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 .. code-block:: python