diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 767b72a18f..13882f2688 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -5434,7 +5434,7 @@
             Then, you can add the following to your
             <filename>local.conf</filename>:
             <literallayout class='monospaced'>
-     SRCREV_pn-&lt;PN&gt; = "${AUTOREF}"
+     SRCREV_pn-&lt;PN&gt; = "${AUTOREV}"
             </literallayout>
             <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PN'><filename>PN</filename></ulink>
             is the name of the recipe for which you want to enable automatic source