diff --git a/docs/sphinx/reference-frontend-api.rst b/docs/sphinx/reference-frontend-api.rst
index 98b3142d7..031c13b36 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/reference-frontend-api.rst
+++ b/docs/sphinx/reference-frontend-api.rst
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Structures/Enumerations
 
 .. code:: cpp
 
-   struct obs_frontend_source_list scenes;
+   struct obs_frontend_source_list scenes = {0};
 
    obs_frontend_get_scenes(&scenes);