diff --git a/man/api-to-man-page-coverage b/man/api-to-man-page-coverage
index 92e60a5a..b9dc18f4 100755
--- a/man/api-to-man-page-coverage
+++ b/man/api-to-man-page-coverage
@@ -1,33 +1,48 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2019 Red Hat, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 #
 # Author: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@kronosnet.org>
 #
 # This software licensed under GPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.0+
 #
 
 err=0
 srcdir="$1"
 target="$2"
 
 headerapicalls="$(grep ${target}_ "$srcdir"/lib${target}/lib${target}.h | grep -v "^ \*" | grep -v ^struct | grep -v "^[[:space:]]" | grep -v typedef | sed -e 's/(.*//g' -e 's/^const //g' -e 's/\*//g' | awk '{print $2}')"
 manpages="$(grep ${target}_ "$srcdir"/man/Makefile.am |grep -v man3 |grep -v xml | sed -e 's/\.3.*//g')"
 
+echo "Checking for header format errors"
+
+for i in $headerapicalls; do
+	echo "Checking $i"
+	header="$(grep " \* ${i}$" "$srcdir"/lib${target}/lib${target}.h -A2)"
+	brief="$(echo "$header" | tail -n 1 |grep "@brief")"
+	if [ -z "$brief" ]; then
+		echo "Error found in $i doxy header section"
+		echo "$header"
+		echo ""
+		echo "$brief"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+done
+
 echo "Checking for symbols in header file NOT distributed as manpages"
 
 for i in $headerapicalls; do
 	found=0
 	for x in $manpages; do
 		if [ "$x" = "$i" ]; then
 			found=1
 			break;
 		fi
 	done
 	if [ "$found" = 0 ]; then
 		echo "API man page $i not found not found in $srcdir/man/Makefile.am"
 		err=1
 	fi
 done
 
 exit $err