diff --git a/docs/cli.rst b/docs/cli.rst
index 3802963..125dc87 100644
--- a/docs/cli.rst
+++ b/docs/cli.rst
@@ -986,6 +986,11 @@ Various built-in recipe functions are available for common operations. These are
 
 These recipes can be used in the code passed to ``sqlite-utils convert`` like this::
 
+    $ sqlite-utils convert my.db mytable mycolumn \
+      'r.jsonsplit(value)'
+
+To use any of the documented parameters, do this::
+
     $ sqlite-utils convert my.db mytable mycolumn \
       'r.jsonsplit(value, delimiter=":")'