diff --git a/docs/basics.rst b/docs/basics.rst
index 63819b3a4..f5702830d 100644
--- a/docs/basics.rst
+++ b/docs/basics.rst
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ Let's download this as a GeoTIFF file,
 Because GeoTIFF does not support a temporal dimension,
 we first eliminate it by taking the temporal maximum value for each pixel:
 
+.. code-block:: python
 
     evi_composite = evi_cube.max_time()