diff --git a/docs/topics/models.rst b/docs/topics/models.rst
index 08d4cfb0..16025907 100644
--- a/docs/topics/models.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/models.rst
@@ -63,12 +63,12 @@ The Comment model's ``create table`` would look like the following:
 
 To sync the models to the database, you may do the following:
 
-`` code-block:: python
+.. code-block:: python
 
     from cqlengine.management import sync_table
     sync_table(Person)
     sync_table(Comment)
-    
+
 
 Columns
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