diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
index 2c9b4a633..d51f80771 100644
--- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
@@ -1585,7 +1585,8 @@ allowedReferences = [ foobar ];
     it enforces that <varname>foobar</varname> itself doesn't
     introduce any other dependency itself. This is used in NixOS when
     rebuilding the stdenv on Linux to ensure that the resulting stdenv
-    doesn't have any surprising dependency, e.g. on bootstrapTools.
+    doesn't have any surprising dependency, e.g. on
+    bootstrapTools.</para></listitem>
 
   </varlistentry>