diff --git a/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/preface/java-configuration.adoc b/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/preface/java-configuration.adoc
index 36141a4426..75441431c1 100644
--- a/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/preface/java-configuration.adoc
+++ b/docs/manual/src/docs/asciidoc/_includes/servlet/preface/java-configuration.adoc
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ We can override this quite simply to alter the way granted authorities are deriv
 
 ```java
 static class GrantedAuthoritiesExtractor extends JwtAuthenticationConverter {
-    protected Collection<GrantedAuthorities> extractAuthorities(Jwt jwt) {
+    protected Collection<GrantedAuthority> extractAuthorities(Jwt jwt) {
         Collection<String> authorities = (Collection<String>)
                 jwt.getClaims().get("mycustomclaim");