diff --git a/docs/encryption.md b/docs/encryption.md
index dc3216d1..9909af67 100644
--- a/docs/encryption.md
+++ b/docs/encryption.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ If you are using `fish` instead of `bash` or `zsh`, you can get the same behavio
 adding this to your `fish` configuration:
 
 ``` sh
-abbr jrnl " jrnl"
+abbr --add jrnl " jrnl"
 ```
 
 To delete existing `jrnl` commands from `fish`’s history, run