diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
index da2d6a83fd3a825ede4ed723dababe8aaffe500e..7b7e7d74f690f5cad4ba02ea33e7affacaed97af 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
@@ -1981,7 +1981,7 @@ Specifying a large value (say 1000 or higher) can be expected to result in
 poor system responsiveness since this scheduling logic will not release
 locks for other events to occur.
 It would be better to let the backfill scheduler process a larger number of jobs
-(see \fBmax_job_bf\fR, \fBbf_continue\fR  and other options here for more
+(see \fBbf_max_job_test\fR, \fBbf_continue\fR  and other options here for more
 information).
 .TP
 \fBdefer\fR