diff --git a/papers/format.md b/papers/format.md
index eb4f423fc..682558ef0 100644
--- a/papers/format.md
+++ b/papers/format.md
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ size | description
  4?? | pointers to samples
  4?? | pointers to patterns
  ??? | orders
-     | - a table of shorts
+     | - a table of bytes
      | - size=channels*ordLen
      | - read orders than channels
  ??? | effect columns