diff --git a/docs/java-api/docs/get.asciidoc b/docs/java-api/docs/get.asciidoc
index ae03eb97100..03c642cbac8 100644
--- a/docs/java-api/docs/get.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/java-api/docs/get.asciidoc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 The get API allows to get a typed JSON document from the index based on
 its id. The following example gets a JSON document from an index called
-twitter, under a type called `_doc``, with id valued 1:
+twitter, under a type called `_doc`, with id valued 1:
 
 [source,java]
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diff --git a/docs/java-api/docs/index_.asciidoc b/docs/java-api/docs/index_.asciidoc
index 80d187d5a77..694a29beba0 100644
--- a/docs/java-api/docs/index_.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/java-api/docs/index_.asciidoc
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ String json = Strings.toString(builder);
 ==== Index document
 
 The following example indexes a JSON document into an index called
-twitter, under a type called `_doc``, with id valued 1:
+twitter, under a type called `_doc`, with id valued 1:
 
 [source,java]
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