diff --git a/doc/source/statuses.rst b/doc/source/statuses.rst
index 44dc537992..1ac7f41d53 100644
--- a/doc/source/statuses.rst
+++ b/doc/source/statuses.rst
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ Images in Glance can be in one the following statuses:
 
    * Add location from zero to more than one.
 
+.. _task-statuses:
+
 Task Statuses
 =============
 
diff --git a/doc/source/tasks.rst b/doc/source/tasks.rst
index c908033bbc..13b9dab1b2 100644
--- a/doc/source/tasks.rst
+++ b/doc/source/tasks.rst
@@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ assigned an expiration datetime that's displayed in the ``expires_at`` field.
 datetime, the task resource is subject to being deleted.  The result of the
 task (for example, an imported image) will still exist.
 
-For details about the defined task statuses, please see :doc:`Task
-Statuses <statuses>`
+For details about the defined task statuses, please see :ref:`task-statuses`.
 
 Tasks expire eventually because there's no reason to keep them around,
 as the user will have the result of the task, which was the point of creating