diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 72ba23146f..b263420813 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -4730,7 +4730,8 @@
        ##COREBASE##/meta-yocto \
        "
                 </literallayout>
-                Creating and providing an archive of the metadata layers
+                Creating and providing an archive of the 
+                <link linkend='metadata'>Metadata</link> layers
                 (recipes, configuration files, and so forth)
                 enables you to meet your
                 requirements to include the scripts to control compilation