diff --git a/scrapy/pqueues.py b/scrapy/pqueues.py
index d7dbbe39f..43e5775c7 100644
--- a/scrapy/pqueues.py
+++ b/scrapy/pqueues.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class ScrapyPriorityQueue:
         * close()
         * __len__()
 
-    The constructor receives a downstream_queue_cls argument, which is a class
+    ``__init__`` method of ScrapyPriorityQueue receives a downstream_queue_cls argument, which is a class
     used to instantiate a new (internal) queue when a new priority is allocated.
 
     Only integer priorities should be used. Lower numbers are higher