diff --git a/docs/api-guide/versioning.md b/docs/api-guide/versioning.md
index a227a4a3d..846698fc1 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/versioning.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/versioning.md
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ How you vary the API behavior is up to you, but one example you might typically
 
 The `reverse` function included by REST framework ties in with the versioning scheme. You need to make sure to include the current `request` as a keyword argument, like so.
 
+    from rest_framework.reverse import reverse
+
     reverse('bookings-list', request=request)
 
 The above function will apply any URL transformations appropriate to the request version. For example: