diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 37c1e3c06..d2bb3d3ec 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ Pieter Mulder
 Piotr Banaszkiewicz
 Piotr Helm
 Prashant Anand
+Prashant Sharma
 Pulkit Goyal
 Punyashloka Biswal
 Quentin Pradet
diff --git a/doc/en/example/markers.rst b/doc/en/example/markers.rst
index 3d55f9ebb..1dc44be34 100644
--- a/doc/en/example/markers.rst
+++ b/doc/en/example/markers.rst
@@ -221,14 +221,19 @@ Registering markers for your test suite is simple:
     [pytest]
     markers =
         webtest: mark a test as a webtest.
+        slow: mark test as slow.
 
-You can ask which markers exist for your test suite - the list includes our just defined ``webtest`` markers:
+Multiple custom markers can be registered, by defining each one in its own line, as shown in above example.
+
+You can ask which markers exist for your test suite - the list includes our just defined ``webtest`` and ``slow`` markers:
 
 .. code-block:: pytest
 
     $ pytest --markers
     @pytest.mark.webtest: mark a test as a webtest.
 
+    @pytest.mark.slow: mark test as slow.
+
     @pytest.mark.filterwarnings(warning): add a warning filter to the given test. see https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/warnings.html#pytest-mark-filterwarnings
 
     @pytest.mark.skip(reason=None): skip the given test function with an optional reason. Example: skip(reason="no way of currently testing this") skips the test.