diff --git a/docs/reference/run.md b/docs/reference/run.md
index db06ad71f..f63678f19 100644
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+++ b/docs/reference/run.md
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ $ docker run -it -m 300M ubuntu:24.04 /bin/bash
 
 We set memory limit only, this means the processes in the container can use
 300M memory and 300M swap memory, by default, the total virtual memory size
-(--memory-swap) will be set as double of memory, in this case, memory + swap
+(`--memory-swap`) will be set as double of memory, in this case, memory + swap
 would be 2*300M, so processes can use 300M swap memory as well.
 
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