diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index 130f9b9cab4..64b2cb2703b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ function call fails.
 
 
 Here are some examples for Windows. Note that ``msvcrt`` is the MS standard C
-library containing most standard C functions, and uses the cdecl calling
+library containing most standard C functions, and uses the ``cdecl`` calling
 convention::
 
    >>> from ctypes import *