diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 503cbac485..6d5c3300e5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ def finalize_options(self):
 
   @inproceedings{rehurek_lrec,
         title = {{Software Framework for Topic Modelling with Large Corpora}},
-        author = {Radim {\v R}eh{\r u}{\v r}ek and Petr Sojka},
+        author = {Radim {\\v R}eh{\\r u}{\\v r}ek and Petr Sojka},
         booktitle = {{Proceedings of the LREC 2010 Workshop on New
              Challenges for NLP Frameworks}},
         pages = {45--50},