# Documentation: how to add cross-references to functions in other modules?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/documentation-how-to-add-cross-references-to-functions-in-other-modules/88504
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Tags:** documentation, documenter
**Created:** [October 10, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/documentation-how-to-add-cross-references-to-functions-in-other-modules/88504 "2022-10-10T03:57:53Z")
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### Author:  [@matthias314](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/matthias314)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/documentation-how-to-add-cross-references-to-functions-in-other-modules/88504/1 "2022-10-10T03:57:54Z")
I’m trying to add cross-references to some Julia docstrings, but I’m running into problems. Take for example the docstring for `Base.@sync` in `base/task.jl` (shortened):
```julia
"""
@sync
Wait until all lexically-enclosed uses of [`@async`](@ref), [`@spawn`](@ref Threads.@spawn),
`@spawnat` and `@distributed` are complete.
"""
```
How does one add a cross-reference to `Distributed.@spawnat` to this docstring? None of the following work:
```julia
[`@spawnat`](@ref) # works in doc/src/manual/distributed-computing.md
[`@spawnat`](@ref Distributed.@spawnat)
[`Distributed.@spawnat`](@ref)
```
For instance, in the first case I get
```julia
Error: no doc found for reference '[`@spawnat`](@ref)' in src/base/parallel.md
```
(Is this related to the fact that in contrast to `Threads` one has to load `Distributed` before one can use the module name?)
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### Author:  [@matthias314](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/matthias314)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/documentation-how-to-add-cross-references-to-functions-in-other-modules/88504/2 "2022-10-11T13:14:29Z")
@mortenpi: Do you know the answer?