diff --git a/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/copynumber/GermlineCNVCaller.java b/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/copynumber/GermlineCNVCaller.java
index 0ed49977bee..418e95296ae 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/copynumber/GermlineCNVCaller.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/broadinstitute/hellbender/tools/copynumber/GermlineCNVCaller.java
@@ -108,12 +108,12 @@
  * 5k intervals, approximately 16GB of memory should be enough to optimize memory usage; for the same
  * analysis at 12.5k intervals, we recommend 32GB of memory. Runtimes are on the order of a few hours.</p>
  *
- * <p>Note that {@link GermlineCNVCaller} can be run on larger interval sets by scattering them into smaller “shards.”
+ * <p>Note that {@link GermlineCNVCaller} can be run on larger interval sets by scattering them into smaller "shards."
  * The shards can subsequently be merged together by {@link PostprocessGermlineCNVCalls} tool. In cloud
  * and HPC environments, the tool can then process each shard in parallel within a single job.</p>
  *
  * <p>By default, {@link GermlineCNVCaller} will attempt to use all CPU cores accessible to it within the runtime
- * environment. Two environment variables — <code>MKL_NUM_THREADS</code> and <code>OMP_NUM_THREADS</code> — control the
+ * environment. Two environment variables - <code>MKL_NUM_THREADS</code> and <code>OMP_NUM_THREADS</code> - control the
  * parallelism of the underlying linear algebra libraries.</p>
  *
  * <p>Runtime is also affected by how fast the inference procedure converges. There are multiple tool arguments that can