diff --git a/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc b/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc
index 155b5f272b4..7898631416b 100644
--- a/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ POST hockey/player/_update_by_query
 
 Note: all of the `_update_by_query` examples above could really do with a
 `query` to limit the data that they pull back. While you *could* use a
-See {ref}/query-dsl-script-query.html[script query] it wouldn't be as efficient
+{ref}/query-dsl-script-query.html[script query] it wouldn't be as efficient
 as using any other query because script queries aren't able to use the inverted
 index to limit the documents that they have to check.