diff --git a/man2/shmop.2 b/man2/shmop.2
index e128a5b86..bb8de92ff 100644
--- a/man2/shmop.2
+++ b/man2/shmop.2
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ the segment is attached for read and write access,
 and the process must have read and write permission for the segment.
 There is no notion of a write-only shared memory segment.
 .TP
-.B SHM_REMAP
-This (Linux-specific) flag specifies
+.BR SHM_REMAP " (Linux-specific)"
+This flag specifies
 that the mapping of the segment should replace
 any existing mapping in the range starting at
 .I shmaddr