diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/administration/declarative-containers.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/administration/declarative-containers.xml
index 177ebdd8db1..5e0bf9d4431 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/administration/declarative-containers.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/administration/declarative-containers.xml
@@ -49,4 +49,8 @@ on container networking.)</para>
 switch</literal>. Note that this will not delete the root directory of
 the container in <literal>/var/lib/containers</literal>.</para>
 
-</section>
\ No newline at end of file
+<para>Declarative containers can be started and stopped using the relative
+systemd service. For example
+<literal>systemctl start container@database</literal>.</para>
+
+</section>