diff --git a/modules/join/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/join/package.html b/modules/join/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/join/package.html
index f4602509a8a..c5189f4f94f 100644
--- a/modules/join/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/join/package.html
+++ b/modules/join/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/join/package.html
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
   String toField = "to"; // Name of the to field
   Query fromQuery = new TermQuery(new Term("content", searchTerm)); // Query executed to collect from values to join to the to values
 
-  MultiTermQuery joinQuery = JoinUtil.createJoinQuery(fromField, multipleValuesPerDocument, toField, fromQuery, fromSearcher);
+  Query joinQuery = JoinUtil.createJoinQuery(fromField, multipleValuesPerDocument, toField, fromQuery, fromSearcher);
   TopDocs topDocs = toSearcher.search(joinQuery, 10); // Note: toSearcher can be the same as the fromSearcher
   // Render topDocs...
 </pre>