diff --git a/src/cli.js b/src/cli.js
index 4589ccc..820efb9 100644
--- a/src/cli.js
+++ b/src/cli.js
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { getCatalogs, getMatchForFilename } from "./catalogs.js";
 import { getFiles } from "./glob.js";
 import { getFromUrlOrFile } from "./io.js";
 import logger from "./logger.js";
+import { getDocumentLocation } from "./output-formatters.js";
 import { parseFile } from "./parser.js";
 
 const EXIT = {
@@ -61,10 +62,11 @@ async function validateDocument(
     );
     result.valid = valid;
     result.errors = errors;
+    const documentLocation = getDocumentLocation(result);
     if (valid) {
-      logger.success(`${fileLocation} is valid\n`);
+      logger.success(`${documentLocation} is valid\n`);
     } else {
-      logger.error(`${fileLocation} is invalid\n`);
+      logger.error(`${documentLocation} is invalid\n`);
     }
 
     result.code = valid ? EXIT.VALID : EXIT.INVALID;
@@ -120,12 +122,11 @@ async function validateFile(filename, config, plugins, cache) {
 
   let results = [];
   for (let i = 0; i < documents.length; i++) {
-    const fileLocation =
-      documents.length === 1 ? filename : `${filename}[${i}]`;
+    const documentIndex = documents.length === 1 ? null : i;
     results.push(
       await validateDocument(
-        fileLocation,
-        i,
+        filename,
+        documentIndex,
         documents[i],
         schemaLocation,
         schema,
diff --git a/src/cli.spec.js b/src/cli.spec.js
index f390ff5..8c13485 100644
--- a/src/cli.spec.js
+++ b/src/cli.spec.js
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ describe("CLI", function () {
       tearDown();
     });
 
-    it("should log errors in text format when format is text", async function () {
+    it("should log errors in text format when format is text (single doc)", async function () {
       return cli({
         patterns: [
           "{./testfiles/files/valid.json,./testfiles/files/invalid.json,./testfiles/files/not-supported.txt}",
@@ -1032,7 +1032,21 @@ describe("CLI", function () {
       });
     });
 
-    it("should output json report when format is json", async function () {
+    it("should log errors in text format when format is text (multi doc)", async function () {
+      return cli({
+        patterns: ["./testfiles/files/multi-doc.yaml"],
+        schema: "./testfiles/schemas/schema.json",
+        format: "text",
+      }).then(() => {
+        assert(
+          logger.stdout.includes(
+            "./testfiles/files/multi-doc.yaml[2]#/num must be number\n",
+          ),
+        );
+      });
+    });
+
+    it("should output json report when format is json (single doc)", async function () {
       return cli({
         patterns: [
           "{./testfiles/files/valid.json,./testfiles/files/invalid.json,./testfiles/files/not-supported.txt}",
@@ -1056,7 +1070,7 @@ describe("CLI", function () {
                 },
               ],
               fileLocation: "./testfiles/files/invalid.json",
-              documentIndex: 0,
+              documentIndex: null,
               schemaLocation: "./testfiles/schemas/schema.json",
               valid: false,
             },
@@ -1072,10 +1086,58 @@ describe("CLI", function () {
               code: 0,
               errors: [],
               fileLocation: "./testfiles/files/valid.json",
+              documentIndex: null,
+              schemaLocation: "./testfiles/schemas/schema.json",
+              valid: true,
+            },
+          ],
+        };
+        assert.deepStrictEqual(JSON.parse(logger.stdout[0]), expected);
+      });
+    });
+
+    it("should output json report when format is json (multi doc)", async function () {
+      return cli({
+        patterns: ["./testfiles/files/multi-doc.yaml"],
+        schema: "./testfiles/schemas/schema.json",
+        format: "json",
+      }).then(() => {
+        const expected = {
+          results: [
+            {
+              code: 0,
+              errors: [],
+              fileLocation: "./testfiles/files/multi-doc.yaml",
               documentIndex: 0,
               schemaLocation: "./testfiles/schemas/schema.json",
               valid: true,
             },
+            {
+              code: 0,
+              errors: [],
+              fileLocation: "./testfiles/files/multi-doc.yaml",
+              documentIndex: 1,
+              schemaLocation: "./testfiles/schemas/schema.json",
+              valid: true,
+            },
+            {
+              code: 99,
+              errors: [
+                {
+                  instancePath: "/num",
+                  keyword: "type",
+                  message: "must be number",
+                  params: {
+                    type: "number",
+                  },
+                  schemaPath: "#/properties/num/type",
+                },
+              ],
+              fileLocation: "./testfiles/files/multi-doc.yaml",
+              documentIndex: 2,
+              schemaLocation: "./testfiles/schemas/schema.json",
+              valid: false,
+            },
           ],
         };
         assert.deepStrictEqual(JSON.parse(logger.stdout[0]), expected);
diff --git a/src/output-formatters.js b/src/output-formatters.js
index 6b69dab..4d02a4f 100644
--- a/src/output-formatters.js
+++ b/src/output-formatters.js
@@ -1,13 +1,20 @@
 import Ajv from "ajv";
 
-function formatErrors(filename, errors) {
+function getDocumentLocation(result) {
+  if (result.documentIndex == null) {
+    return result.fileLocation;
+  }
+  return `${result.fileLocation}[${result.documentIndex}]`;
+}
+
+function formatErrors(location, errors) {
   const ajv = new Ajv();
   return (
     ajv.errorsText(errors, {
       separator: "\n",
-      dataVar: filename + "#",
+      dataVar: location + "#",
     }) + "\n"
   );
 }
 
-export { formatErrors };
+export { formatErrors, getDocumentLocation };
diff --git a/src/plugins.js b/src/plugins.js
index 0bca5ae..03431ee 100644
--- a/src/plugins.js
+++ b/src/plugins.js
@@ -209,7 +209,9 @@ async function loadAllPlugins(userPlugins) {
  * @property {number | null} documentIndex - Some file formats allow multiple
  *   documents to be embedded in one file (e.g:
  *   [yaml](https://www.yaml.info/learn/document.html)). In these cases,
- *   `documentIndex` identifies the sub document within the file.
+ *   `documentIndex` identifies is used to identify the sub document within the
+ *   file. `documentIndex` will be `null` when there is a one-to-one
+ *   relationship between file and document.
  * @property {string | null} schemaLocation - Location of the schema used to
  *   validate this file if one could be found. `null` if no schema was found.
  * @property {boolean | null} valid - Result of the validation (true/false) if a
diff --git a/src/plugins/output-text.js b/src/plugins/output-text.js
index 39bb144..86bcf42 100644
--- a/src/plugins/output-text.js
+++ b/src/plugins/output-text.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { BasePlugin } from "../plugins.js";
-import { formatErrors } from "../output-formatters.js";
+import { formatErrors, getDocumentLocation } from "../output-formatters.js";
 
 class TextOutput extends BasePlugin {
   static name = "v8r-plugin-text-output";
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class TextOutput extends BasePlugin {
 
   getSingleResultLogMessage(result, fileLocation, format) {
     if (result.valid === false && format === "text") {
-      return formatErrors(fileLocation, result.errors);
+      return formatErrors(getDocumentLocation(result), result.errors);
     }
   }
 }