diff --git a/spacy/displacy/__init__.py b/spacy/displacy/__init__.py
index f5216ccfc..e84ba376d 100644
--- a/spacy/displacy/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/displacy/__init__.py
@@ -28,8 +28,12 @@ def render(docs, style='dep', page=False, minify=False, jupyter=False, options={
     elif style is 'ent':
         renderer = EntityRenderer(options=options)
         parsed = [parse_ents(doc, options) for doc in docs]
-    _html['parsed'] = renderer.render(parsed, page=page, minify=minify)
-    return _html['parsed']
+    _html['parsed'] = renderer.render(parsed, page=page, minify=minify).strip()
+    html = _html['parsed']
+    if jupyter: # return HTML rendered by IPython display()
+        from IPython.core.display import display, HTML
+        return display(HTML(html))
+    return html
 
 
 def serve(docs, style='dep', page=True, minify=False, options={}, port=5000):
diff --git a/spacy/displacy/templates.py b/spacy/displacy/templates.py
index 5cbcba98d..bdbdee459 100644
--- a/spacy/displacy/templates.py
+++ b/spacy/displacy/templates.py
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 
+# setting explicit height and max-width: none on the SVG is required for
+# Jupyter to render it properly in a cell
+
 TPL_DEP_SVG = """
-<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" id="{id}" class="displacy" width="{width}" height="{height}" style="color: {color}; background: {bg}; font-family: {font}">{content}</svg>
+<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" id="{id}" class="displacy" width="{width}" height="{height}" style="max-width: none; height: {height}px; color: {color}; background: {bg}; font-family: {font}">{content}</svg>
 """