diff --git a/name.rst b/name.rst
index 0db53cd..d018701 100644
--- a/name.rst
+++ b/name.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
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 For textual representation, it is often convenient to use URI to represent NDN names.
-Please refer to RFC 3986 (URI Generic Syntax) for background.
+Please refer to :rfc:`3986` (URI Generic Syntax) for background.
 
 The scheme identifier is ``ndn``.