diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ have `-I. -I./src/` in their build arguments. So to include a header like
 [`src/libnm-glib-aux/nm-random-utils.h`](src/libnm-glib-aux/nm-random-utils.h)
 you'd do `#include "libnm-glib-aux/nm-random-utils.h"`.
 
-Note that there are exceptions. For example, `src/libnm-std-aux/nm-linux-compat.h`](src/libnm-std-aux/nm-linux-compat.h)
+Note that there are exceptions. For example, [`src/libnm-std-aux/nm-linux-compat.h`](src/libnm-std-aux/nm-linux-compat.h)
 may need to be included before system headers as it is supposed to include headers
 from `src/linux-headers`](src/linux-headers).