diff --git a/doc/experiments.rst b/doc/experiments.rst
index 701a1b67dedacb2085a7f1c90bf2cfad22b1c2b8..b6dc2190c7aa0a102ec87c1154eead637fa390b8 100644
--- a/doc/experiments.rst
+++ b/doc/experiments.rst
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Running the experiment is then as simple as:
 
 .. note::
    Chain loading is possible through configuration files, i.e., variables of each
-   config is available during evaluation of the preceding config file.
+   config is available during evaluation of the following config file.
    
    This allows us to spread our experiment setup in several configuration files and have a call similar to this::