diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index 93fc4de4ab..5bc9a2b83e 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -1638,6 +1638,15 @@ Examples::
       management.call_command('flush', verbosity=0, interactive=False)
       management.call_command('loaddata', 'test_data', verbosity=0)
 
+Note that command options that take no arguments are passed as keywords
+with ``True`` or ``False``::
+
+      management.call_command('dumpdata', use_natural_keys=True)
+
+Command options which take multiple options are passed a list::
+
+      management.call_command('dumpdata', exclude=['contenttypes', 'auth'])
+
 Output redirection
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