diff --git a/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md b/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md
index e6df17f51..a1666c011 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/viewsets.md
@@ -235,6 +235,8 @@ You may need to provide custom `ViewSet` classes that do not have the full set o
 
 To create a base viewset class that provides `create`, `list` and `retrieve` operations, inherit from `GenericViewSet`, and mixin the required actions:
 
+    from rest_framework import mixins
+
     class CreateListRetrieveViewSet(mixins.CreateModelMixin,
                                     mixins.ListModelMixin,
                                     mixins.RetrieveModelMixin,