diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
index ce218f06dc..b5c3c6bba6 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ templates used by the :class:`ModelAdmin` views:
 
 .. method:: ModelAdmin.get_ordering(request)
 
-    The ``get_ordering`` method takes a``request`` as parameter and
+    The ``get_ordering`` method takes a ``request`` as parameter and
     is expected to return a ``list`` or ``tuple`` for ordering similar
     to the :attr:`ordering` attribute. For example::