diff --git a/doc/man/man5/cgroup.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/cgroup.conf.5
index f21a20061f5bbc789c1446693a611c76e5858440..5b647cfc7f98183741555b4026529783f45e9e45 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/cgroup.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/cgroup.conf.5
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The following cgroup.conf parameters are defined to control the general behavior
 of Slurm cgroup plugins.
 
 .TP
-.BICgroupMountpoint " PATH"
+\fBCgroupMountpoint\fR=\fIPATH\fR
 Specify the \fIPATH\fR under which cgroups should be mounted. This
 should be a writeable directory which will contain cgroups mounted
 one per subsystem. The default \fIPATH\fR is /cgroup.