diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index 14414ea7f81ea3..e4e38e933681b2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -1567,6 +1567,8 @@ If you ever encounter a presumed highly unusual situation where you need to
 prevent ``vfork()`` from being used by Python, you can set the
 :attr:`subprocess._USE_VFORK` attribute to a false value.
 
+::
+
    subprocess._USE_VFORK = False  # See CPython issue gh-NNNNNN.
 
 Setting this has no impact on use of ``posix_spawn()`` which could use
@@ -1574,6 +1576,8 @@ Setting this has no impact on use of ``posix_spawn()`` which could use
 :attr:`subprocess._USE_POSIX_SPAWN` attribute if you need to prevent use of
 that.
 
+::
+
    subprocess._USE_POSIX_SPAWN = False  # See CPython issue gh-NNNNNN.
 
 It is safe to set these to false on any Python version. They will have no