diff --git a/doc/developer-notes.md b/doc/developer-notes.md
index 75a1e0f515..95c0f8e64f 100644
--- a/doc/developer-notes.md
+++ b/doc/developer-notes.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ gradually.
   - No indentation for public/protected/private or for namespaces.
   - No extra spaces inside parenthesis; don't do ( this )
   - No space after function names; one space after if, for and while.
+  - Align pointers and references to the left i.e. use `type& var` and not `type &var`.
 
 Block style example:
 ```c++
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ namespace foo
 {
 class Class
 {
-    bool Function(char* psz, int n)
+    bool Function(char* psz, int n, const string& s)
     {
         // Comment summarising what this section of code does
         for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {