diff --git a/doc/JavaKernelGuidelines.md b/doc/JavaKernelGuidelines.md
index afc5bf64e4d1b17f31de628e026990af153c73fb..71b5a2264704f5d5e5d068f13c1720932756ca7c 100644
--- a/doc/JavaKernelGuidelines.md
+++ b/doc/JavaKernelGuidelines.md
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Some restrictions/guidelines may be removed or augmented in a future Aparapi rel
 * Only simple loops and conditionals are supported; switch, break, and continue are not supported.
 * A variable cannot have its first assignment be the side effect of an expression evaluation or a method call.  For example, the following will not be translated to run on the GPU.
 
+
     int foo(int a) {
        // . . .
     }