diff --git a/doc/markdown/markdown.md b/doc/markdown/markdown.md
index a84222f9fc23106ea33944dd8b1aa1a0b4365183..6b5308afc4f3f91e40840aad89cad4a9b17ee641 100644
--- a/doc/markdown/markdown.md
+++ b/doc/markdown/markdown.md
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ GFM will recognize the following:
 * !123 : for merge requests
 * $123 : for snippets
 * 1234567 : for commits
-* [file](path/to/file) : for file references
+* \[file\](path/to/file) : for file references
 
 <a name="standard"/>