diff --git a/nf_core/pipeline-template/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/nf_core/pipeline-template/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 881ecbb022..44b796fd43 100644
--- a/nf_core/pipeline-template/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/nf_core/pipeline-template/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Once there, use `nf-core schema build` to add to `nextflow_schema.json`.
 
 Sensible defaults for process resource requirements (CPUs / memory / time) for a process should be defined in `conf/base.config`. These should generally be specified generic with `withLabel:` selectors so they can be shared across multiple processes/steps of the pipeline. A nf-core standard set of labels that should be followed where possible can be seen in the [nf-core pipeline template](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/blob/master/nf_core/pipeline-template/conf/base.config), which has the default process as a single core-process, and then different levels of multi-core configurations for increasingly large memory requirements defined with standardised labels.
 
-The process resources can be passed on to the tool dynamically within the process with the `${task.cpu}` and `${task.memory}` variables in the `script:` block.
+The process resources can be passed on to the tool dynamically within the process with the `${task.cpus}` and `${task.memory}` variables in the `script:` block.
 
 ### Naming schemes