diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index fb2731931d..ee9331affa 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -1985,7 +1985,7 @@
                 Here is an example:
                 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
      SRC_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/a/apmd/apmd_3.2.2.orig.tar.gz;name=tarball \
-                ${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/a/apmd/apmd_${PV}.diff.gz;name=patch
+                ${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/a/apmd/apmd_${PV}.diff.gz;name=patch"
 
      SRC_URI[tarball.md5sum] = "b1e6309e8331e0f4e6efd311c2d97fa8"
      SRC_URI[tarball.sha256sum] = "7f7d9f60b7766b852881d40b8ff91d8e39fccb0d1d913102a5c75a2dbb52332d"