diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
index 97e2eb607..963c339fd 100644
--- a/man2/fcntl.2
+++ b/man2/fcntl.2
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ and
 .B SIGURG
 signals at a particular thread.
 .TP
-.BR F_GETOWN_EX " (struct f_owner_ex *) (since Linux 2.6.32)"
+.BR F_GETOWN_EX " (\fIstruct f_owner_ex *\fP) (since Linux 2.6.32)"
 Return the current file descriptor owner settings
 as defined by a previous
 .BR F_SETOWN_EX
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ See
 .B F_SETOWN_EX
 for more details.
 .TP
-.BR F_SETOWN_EX " (struct f_owner_ex *) (since Linux 2.6.32)"
+.BR F_SETOWN_EX " (\fIstruct f_owner_ex *\fP) (since Linux 2.6.32)"
 This operation performs a similar task to
 .BR F_SETOWN .
 It allows the caller to direct I/O availability signals