diff --git a/source/administration/configuration.txt b/source/administration/configuration.txt
index 8f8b4ab4634..20ce1e18925 100644
--- a/source/administration/configuration.txt
+++ b/source/administration/configuration.txt
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ following explanation:
   server to only listen for requests on the localhost IP. Only bind to
   secure interfaces that the application-level systems can access with
   access control provided by system network filtering
-  (i.e. ":term:`firewall`) systems.
+  (i.e. ":term:`firewall`").
 
 - :setting:`port` is ``27017``, which is the default
   MongoDB port for database instances. MongoDB can bind to any