diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index ae150b006..393019d4e 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ badging criteria and/or the software to implement it.
 That includes everyone who provided comments via the mailing list,
 issue tracker, or via pull requests.
 
-Alphabetically by last name, contributors include:
+Alphabetically by family (last) name, contributors include:
 Wang Anyu
 Mark Atwood
 Tod Beardsley