diff --git a/docs/usage/quick_rule.rst b/docs/usage/quick_rule.rst
index 337c7dc9..8392f25f 100644
--- a/docs/usage/quick_rule.rst
+++ b/docs/usage/quick_rule.rst
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ The following is a quick guide for creating and running a simple pipeline to ext
 
     ::
 
-        snakemake
+        snakemake -j1
 
 #. Daily and night call metrics will be found in files under the ``data/processed/p01/`` directory.