diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/docgen/templates/be/common-definitions.vm b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/docgen/templates/be/common-definitions.vm
index 717db6ddbde2e1..6a5dfcbc93b982 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/docgen/templates/be/common-definitions.vm
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/docgen/templates/be/common-definitions.vm
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ many functions or build rules.
expansion: if those strings contain a valid label as a
substring, such as //mypkg:target
, and that label is a
declared prerequisite of the current rule, it is expanded into the
- pathname of the file represented by the target //mypkg:target
.
+ pathname of the file represented by the
+ target
+ //mypkg:target
.