diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/textcat.py b/spacy/pipeline/textcat.py
index 8b46082cb..a9339c021 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/textcat.py
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/textcat.py
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ bow_model_config = """
 [model]
 @architectures = "spacy.TextCatBOW.v1"
 exclusive_classes = false
-ngram_size: 1
-no_output_layer: false
+ngram_size = 1
+no_output_layer = false
 """
 
 cnn_model_config = """