diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7
index 5a5640ba2..5ba62b78d 100644
--- a/man7/signal.7
+++ b/man7/signal.7
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ file descriptor were not restartable;
 when interrupted by a signal handler,
 .BR read (2)
 always failed with the error
-.IR EINTR .)
+.BR EINTR .)
 If an I/O call on a slow device has already transferred some
 data by the time it is interrupted by a signal handler,
 then the call will return a success status