diff --git a/Doc/c-api/abstract.rst b/Doc/c-api/abstract.rst
index 66426f72c3f..db4c02aac54 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/abstract.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/abstract.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ sequence types).  When used on object types for which they do not apply, they
 will raise a Python exception.
 
 It is not possible to use these functions on objects that are not properly
-initialized, such as a list object that has been created by :cfunc:`PyList_New`,
+initialized, such as a list object that has been created by :c:func:`PyList_New`,
 but whose items have not been set to some non-\ ``NULL`` value yet.
 
 .. toctree::