diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   - Review existing issues and provide feedback or react to them.
 
 - With pull requests:
-  - Open your pull request against master
+  - Open your pull request against `master`
   - Your pull request should have no more than two commits, if not you should squash them.
   - It should pass all tests in the available continuous integrations systems such as TravisCI.
   - You should add/modify tests to cover your proposed code changes.