diff --git a/doc/contribute/documentation/generation.rst b/doc/contribute/documentation/generation.rst
index 79f777204c3a01..8c5675333231d0 100644
--- a/doc/contribute/documentation/generation.rst
+++ b/doc/contribute/documentation/generation.rst
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ To enable this mode, set the following option when invoking cmake::
 
 or invoke make with the following target::
 
-   cd ~/zephyr
+   cd ~/zephyr/doc
 
    # To generate HTML output without detailed Kconfig
    make html-fast