diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index def2e65e2..ce4ed8067 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ because of the set-user-ID and set-group-ID mode bits.
 
 The process's read UID and real GID, as well its supplementary group IDs,
 are unchanged by a call to
-.BR execve (2).
+.BR execve ().
 
 If the executable is an a.out dynamically linked
 binary executable containing