diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4b79f050..f606ce46 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,22 +32,22 @@ There are two ways to instantiate a sharedb-mongo wrapper:
 1. The simplest way is to invoke the module and pass in your mongo DB
 arguments as arguments to the module function. For example:
 
-```javascript
-const db = require('sharedb-mongo')('mongodb://localhost:27017/test');
-const backend = new ShareDB({db});
-```
+    ```javascript
+    const db = require('sharedb-mongo')('mongodb://localhost:27017/test');
+    const backend = new ShareDB({db});
+    ```
 
 2. If you'd like to reuse a mongo db connection or handle mongo driver
 instantiation yourself, you can pass in a function that calls back with
 a mongo instance.
 
-```javascript
-const mongodb = require('mongodb');
-const db = require('sharedb-mongo')({mongo: function(callback) {
-  mongodb.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/test', callback);
-}});
-const backend = new ShareDB({db});
-```
+    ```javascript
+    const mongodb = require('mongodb');
+    const db = require('sharedb-mongo')({mongo: function(callback) {
+      mongodb.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/test', callback);
+    }});
+    const backend = new ShareDB({db});
+    ```
 
 
 ## Queries