diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
index 43b28eeb87..d7fa787142 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -550,6 +550,7 @@ Contributors
 * Anirudh V S
 * Shariq Jamil
 * Kyle Bayliss
+* John Simms
 
 Translators
 ===========
diff --git a/docs/advanced_topics/api/v2/configuration.rst b/docs/advanced_topics/api/v2/configuration.rst
index cd925534aa..d0eb9e467c 100644
--- a/docs/advanced_topics/api/v2/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/advanced_topics/api/v2/configuration.rst
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ to add API fields that have a different field name or no underlying field at all
             APIField('published_date'),
 
             # A separate published_date_display field with a different format
-            APIField('published_date_display', serializer=DateField(format='%A $d %B %Y', source='published_date')),
+            APIField('published_date_display', serializer=DateField(format='%A %d %B %Y', source='published_date')),
             ...
         ]