diff --git a/docs/manifest-format.md b/docs/manifest-format.md
index 0201c88b..ca385ba3 100644
--- a/docs/manifest-format.md
+++ b/docs/manifest-format.md
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ Attribute `groups`: List of groups to which this project belongs,
 whitespace or comma separated.  All projects belong to the group
 "all", and each project automatically belongs to a group of
 its name:`name` and path:`path`.  E.g. for
-<project name="monkeys" path="barrel-of"/>, that project
+`<project name="monkeys" path="barrel-of"/>`, that project
 definition is implicitly in the following manifest groups:
 default, name:monkeys, and path:barrel-of.  If you place a project in the
 group "notdefault", it will not be automatically downloaded by repo.