diff --git a/docs/releases/1.0.txt b/docs/releases/1.0.txt
index d9a04226f0..0a4395fb24 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.0.txt
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ interoperability with third-party libraries and systems which may or may not
 handle Unicode gracefully. Details are available in Django's Unicode-handling
 documentation.
 
-See :ref:`<ref-unicode>`.
+See :ref:`ref-unicode`.
 
 An improved ORM
 ---------------