diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 853d8fbe..bae7c52c 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ with MongoDB version > 3.6.
 Installation
 ============
 We recommend the use of `virtualenv <https://virtualenv.pypa.io/>`_ and of
-`pip <https://pip.pypa.io/>`_. You can then use ``pip install -U mongoengine``.
+`pip <https://pip.pypa.io/>`_. You can then use ``python -m pip install -U mongoengine``.
 You may also have `setuptools <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools>`_
 and thus you can use ``easy_install -U mongoengine``. Another option is
 `pipenv <https://docs.pipenv.org/>`_. You can then use ``pipenv install mongoengine``
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ run ``python setup.py install``.
 
 Dependencies
 ============
-All of the dependencies can easily be installed via `pip <https://pip.pypa.io/>`_.
+All of the dependencies can easily be installed via `python -m pip <https://pip.pypa.io/>`_.
 At the very least, you'll need these two packages to use MongoEngine:
 
 - pymongo>=3.4
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ installed in your environment and then:
 .. code-block:: shell
 
     # Install tox
-    $ pip install tox
+    $ python -m pip install tox
     # Run the test suites
     $ tox
 
diff --git a/docs/guide/installing.rst b/docs/guide/installing.rst
index b89d48f0..2c962ad9 100644
--- a/docs/guide/installing.rst
+++ b/docs/guide/installing.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ MongoEngine is available on PyPI, so you can use :program:`pip`:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-    $ pip install mongoengine
+    $ python -m pip install mongoengine
 
 Alternatively, if you don't have setuptools installed, `download it from PyPi
 <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mongoengine/>`_ and run
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 15f3c590..a42ff857 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ MongoDB. To install it, simply run
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-    $ pip install -U mongoengine
+    $ python -m pip install -U mongoengine
 
 :doc:`tutorial`
   A quick tutorial building a tumblelog to get you up and running with
diff --git a/docs/tutorial.rst b/docs/tutorial.rst
index bcd0d17f..b7885c34 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial.rst
+++ b/docs/tutorial.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ location --- running it locally will be easier, but if that is not an option
 then it may be run on a remote server. If you haven't installed MongoEngine,
 simply use pip to install it like so::
 
-    $ pip install mongoengine
+    $ python -m pip install mongoengine
 
 Before we can start using MongoEngine, we need to tell it how to connect to our
 instance of :program:`mongod`. For this we use the :func:`~mongoengine.connect`
diff --git a/docs/upgrade.rst b/docs/upgrade.rst
index 082dbadc..285bf24c 100644
--- a/docs/upgrade.rst
+++ b/docs/upgrade.rst
@@ -85,10 +85,10 @@ by default from now on.
 
 The 0.8.7 package on pypi was corrupted.  If upgrading from 0.8.7 to 0.9.0 please follow: ::
 
-    pip uninstall pymongo
-    pip uninstall mongoengine
-    pip install pymongo==2.8
-    pip install mongoengine
+    python -m pip uninstall pymongo
+    python -m pip uninstall mongoengine
+    python -m pip install pymongo==2.8
+    python -m pip install mongoengine
 
 0.8.7
 *****