diff --git a/doc/reference/kernel/threads/index.rst b/doc/reference/kernel/threads/index.rst
index 4fb96613758..8f3a38c2686 100644
--- a/doc/reference/kernel/threads/index.rst
+++ b/doc/reference/kernel/threads/index.rst
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ In some cases a thread may want to sleep until another thread terminates.
 This can be accomplished with the :c:func:`k_thread_join` API. This
 will block the calling thread until either the timeout expires, the target
 thread self-exits, or the target thread aborts (either due to a
-k_thread_abort() call or triggering a fatal error).
+:c:func:`k_thread_abort` call or triggering a fatal error).
 
 Once a thread has terminated, the kernel guarantees that no use will
 be made of the thread struct.  The memory of such a struct can then be