diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 17c5d49e49..3530fb0a2c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ The microservices and associated utility projects are intended to be developed,
 and released independently.  The following subdirectories contain those independently
 versioned modules:
 
+```
 core/utils/type-utils
 contrib/datawave-utils
 core/base-rest-responses
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ microservices/services/modification
 microservices/services/query
 microservices/services/query-executor
 microservices/services/query-metric
+```
 
 Each of those subdirectories contain a .gitrepo file that keeps track of where the code came from.