diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 005785e97..128958146 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ worker in two different threads, ``runworker`` to run separate workers,
 and ``runwsserver`` to run a Twisted-based WebSocket server.
 
 You should place consumers in either your ``views.py`` or a ``consumers.py``.
-Here's an example of WebSocket consumers for basic chat::
+Here's an example of WebSocket consumers for basic chat:
+
+.. code-block:: python
 
     import redis
     from channels import Channel
@@ -56,9 +58,10 @@ Here's an example of WebSocket consumers for basic chat::
         # you'd want expiring keys here in real life.
 
 Alternately, you can just push some code outside of a normal view into a worker
-thread::
+thread:
+
+.. code-block:: python
 
-    
     from django.shortcuts import render
     from channels import Channel
 
diff --git a/docs/concepts.rst b/docs/concepts.rst
index 3171b01cb..aac803a62 100644
--- a/docs/concepts.rst
+++ b/docs/concepts.rst
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ How do we use channels?
 -----------------------
 
 That's what a channel is, but how is Django using them? Well, inside Django
-you can connect a function to consume a channel, like so::
+you can connect a function to consume a channel, like so:
+
+.. code-block:: python
 
     @Channel.consumer("channel-name")
     def my_consumer(something, **kwargs):
@@ -99,7 +101,9 @@ message and can write out zero to many other channel messages.
 Now, let's make a channel for requests (called ``django.wsgi.request``), 
 and a channel per client for responses (e.g. ``django.wsgi.respsonse.o4F2h2Fd``),
 with the response channel a property (``send_channel``) of the request message.
-Suddenly, a view is merely another example of a consumer::
+Suddenly, a view is merely another example of a consumer:
+
+.. code-block:: python
 
     @Channel.consumer("django.wsgi.request")
     def my_consumer(send_channel, **request_data):
diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index 06a7c5cc3..d074bd542 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ Channels is available on PyPI - to install it, just run::
     pip install -U channels
 
 Once that's done, you should add ``channels`` to your
-``INSTALLED_APPS`` setting::
+``INSTALLED_APPS`` setting:
+
+.. code-block:: python
 
     INSTALLED_APPS = (
         'django.contrib.auth',