diff --git a/source/_topics/templating.markdown b/source/_topics/templating.markdown
index efd7660c255..5a84181d89f 100644
--- a/source/_topics/templating.markdown
+++ b/source/_topics/templating.markdown
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ Home Assistant adds extensions to allow templates to access all of the current s
 - `states('device_tracker.paulus')` will return the state string (not the object) of the given entity or `unknown` if it doesn't exist.
 - `is_state('device_tracker.paulus', 'home')` will test if the given entity is specified state.
 - `is_state_attr('device_tracker.paulus', 'battery', 40)` will test if the given entity is specified state.
-- `now` will be rendered as current time in your time zone.
-- `utcnow` will be rendered as UTC time.
+- `now()` will be rendered as current time in your time zone.
+- `utcnow()` will be rendered as UTC time.
 - `as_timestamp` will convert datetime object or string to UNIX timestamp
 - `distance()` will measure the distance in meters between home, entity, coordinates.
 - `closest()` will find the closest entity.