diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index f292a6152..dc6512731 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 - [cu2qu] Added ``fontTools.cu2qu`` package, imported from the original
   `cu2qu <https://github.com/googlefonts/cu2qu>`__ project. The ``cu2qu.pens`` module
   was moved to ``fontTools.pens.cu2quPen``. The optional cu2qu extension module
-  can be compiled by installing `Cython <https://cython.org/>` before installing
+  can be compiled by installing `Cython <https://cython.org/>`__ before installing
   fonttools from source (i.e. git repo or sdist tarball). The wheel package that
   is published on PyPI (i.e. the one ``pip`` downloads, unless ``--no-binary``
   option is used), will continue to be pure-Python for now (#1868).