diff --git a/docs/api/making-requests.md b/docs/api/making-requests.md
index 0936fd28..c0e657f9 100644
--- a/docs/api/making-requests.md
+++ b/docs/api/making-requests.md
@@ -8,14 +8,17 @@ The API is accessible from `http://<cachet-url>/api/<endpoint>`
 
 You can use curl to interact with the API. There is no authentication required for `GET` requests:
 
-`curl -XGET http://status.cachethq.io/api/components`
+```bash
+$ curl -XGET http://status.cachethq.io/api/components
+```
 
 In order to create incidents, you must send the a json string with the required payload and authenticate. More information can be found in the Endpoints documentation listed below.
 
 Here's a simple example:
 
-`curl -u username@example.com -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"API","description":"An example description","status":1}' http://status.cachethq.io/api/components`
-
+```bash
+$ curl -u username@example.com -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"API","description":"An example description","status":1}' http://status.cachethq.io/api/components
+```
 
 # Endpoints