diff --git a/docs/source/developers/java/development.rst b/docs/source/developers/java/development.rst
index f7b19d73da2e2..261cd5702ae07 100644
--- a/docs/source/developers/java/development.rst
+++ b/docs/source/developers/java/development.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Unit Testing
 Unit tests are run by Maven during the build.
 
 To speed up the build, you can skip them by passing -DskipTests.
+
 .. code-block::
 
     $ cd arrow/java