diff --git a/docs/handbook/image-file-formats.rst b/docs/handbook/image-file-formats.rst
index d5a898150..2f7eaa6ed 100644
--- a/docs/handbook/image-file-formats.rst
+++ b/docs/handbook/image-file-formats.rst
@@ -364,11 +364,10 @@ The :py:meth:`~PIL.Image.open` method may set the following
 The :py:meth:`~PIL.Image.Image.save` method supports the following options:
 
 **quality**
-
     The image quality, on a scale from 0 (worst) to 95 (best), or the string
-    `"keep"`. The default is 75. Values above 95 should be avoided; 100 disables
+    ``keep``. The default is 75. Values above 95 should be avoided; 100 disables
     portions of the JPEG compression algorithm, and results in large files with
-    hardly any gain in image quality. The value `"keep"` is only valid for JPEG
+    hardly any gain in image quality. The value ``keep`` is only valid for JPEG
     files and will retain the original image quality level, subsampling, and
     quantization tables.