diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/README b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/README
index 347816b..6a0d7c0 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/README
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/README
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 Send pull requests to openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org with '[meta-oe]' in the subject'
 
 When sending single patches, please use something like:
-'git send-email -M -1 --to openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org --subject-prefix=meta-oe][PATCH'
+'git send-email -M -1 --to openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org --subject-prefix="meta-oe][PATCH"'
 
 You are encouraged to fork the mirror on GitHub https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core
 to share your patches, this is preferred for patch sets consisting of more than one patch.