diff --git a/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md b/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md
index f012677d3..18066f056 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/6-viewsets-and-routers.md
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ Here's our re-wired `snippets/urls.py` file.
 
     # Create a router and register our viewsets with it.
     router = DefaultRouter()
-    router.register(r'snippets', views.SnippetViewSet)
-    router.register(r'users', views.UserViewSet)
+    router.register(r'snippets', views.SnippetViewSet,basename="snippets")
+    router.register(r'users', views.UserViewSet,basename="users")
 
     # The API URLs are now determined automatically by the router.
     urlpatterns = [