diff --git a/src/linkahead/utils/escape.py b/src/linkahead/utils/escape.py
index b42c0b1ff02c4416bff8ec6b1d94b41623d473e8..d6b206fc458b7ba002603fafe51c3a7835202920 100644
--- a/src/linkahead/utils/escape.py
+++ b/src/linkahead/utils/escape.py
@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@
 
 
 def escape_quoted_text(text: str) -> str:
-    """The characters `\` and `*` need to be escaped if used in quoted expressions in the query
+    """The characters ``\\`` and ``*`` need to be escaped if used in quoted expressions in the query
     language.
 
-    This function return the given string where the characters `\` and `*` are escaped by a `\`.
+    This function return the given string where the characters ``\\`` and ``*`` are escaped by
+    a ``\\``.
 
     Parameters
     ----------