diff --git a/docs/ingestorManual.md b/docs/ingestorManual.md
index 986d29a..bce77a5 100644
--- a/docs/ingestorManual.md
+++ b/docs/ingestorManual.md
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ There are backward compatible scripts in the [github repo](https://github.com/pa
 ### Important Update since April 14th 2022
 
 For all commandline tools, like the datasetIngestor, datasetRetriever
-  etc, using your own user account you **have** to use the –token
+  etc, using your own user account you **have** to use the `--token`
   option with a predefined API token SCICAT-TOKEN. Specifying
   username/password is not possible for normal users (this limitation
   is caused by the switch to a new authentication protocol). The
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ scicat-cli datasetIngestor --ingest metadata.json
 ```
 
 For particularly important datasets, you may also want to use the
-parameter –tapecopies 2 to store redundant copies of the data.
+parameter `--tapecopies` 2 to store redundant copies of the data.
 To give some numbers, 0.2–0.4% of the tapes get damaged so
 there is a chance that archiving with only one copy will result in lost
 data, in very few cases. Keep in mind that archival with redundancy
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ For Windows systems you can only use personal accounts and the data is
 always handled as `decentral` case, i.e. the data will first be copied
 from the windows machine to a central file server via scp
 first. Therefore you need to specify all of the above parameters
--token, -user and -copy.
+`--token`, `--user` and `--copy`.
 
 Please also note the syntax, that has to be used for the definition of
 the sourceFolder inside the metadata.json file: this has to be in the
@@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ chosen for the same quantity:
     You will be prompted for your username and password.
 
     If everything looks as expected you should now repeat the command with
-    the "–ingest" flag to actually store the dataset(s) in the data
+    the `--ingest` flag to actually store the dataset(s) in the data
     catalog
 
     ```sh
@@ -1214,7 +1214,7 @@ chosen for the same quantity:
     central cache file server).
 
     In addition you have the option to directly trigger the archiving of
-    the data to tape by adding the –autoarchive flag. Do this only if you
+    the data to tape by adding the `--autoarchive` flag. Do this only if you
     sure that this data is worth to be archived
 
 #### Use Case: Automated ingest of raw datasets from beamline or instruments