diff --git a/doc/source/install.rst b/doc/source/install.rst
index 1e3ca9a385ee1..1994bdf8c8d50 100644
--- a/doc/source/install.rst
+++ b/doc/source/install.rst
@@ -299,9 +299,10 @@ Optional Dependencies
:func:`~pandas.io.clipboard.read_clipboard`. Most package managers on Linux
distributions will have xclip and/or xsel immediately available for
installation.
-* Google's `python-gflags` and `google-api-python-client`
+* Google's `python-gflags `__
+ and `google-api-python-client `__
* Needed for :mod:`~pandas.io.gbq`
-* `httplib2`
+* `httplib2 `__
* Needed for :mod:`~pandas.io.gbq`
* One of the following combinations of libraries is needed to use the
top-level :func:`~pandas.io.html.read_html` function: