diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3c31edf..315ce5e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ If the user has a single genotype file, then user can make use of bcftools scrip
 from smcpp_pipeline import vcf2smc,estimate,plot
 
 1) Function to convert vcf file to smc format
-  def vcf2smc(popfile,chromosome_info,gaps_bed,num_workers)
+  def vcf2smc(popfile,chromosome_info,gaps_bed,num_workers):
 2) Function to estimate the demographic history of a single population
-   def estimate(popfile,mu = 1.25e-8,spline = "piecewise",start_time = 100, end_time=100000,knots = 8
+   def estimate(popfile,mu = 1.25e-8,spline = "piecewise",start_time = 100, end_time=100000,knots = 8):
 3) Function to generate plots from the model.json file obtained using estimate function
-   def plot(popfile,time_start=100,time_end=15000)
+   def plot(popfile,time_start=100,time_end=15000):
 
 popfile should be a tab separated file containing two columns