diff --git a/docs/guide/defining-documents.rst b/docs/guide/defining-documents.rst
index 7fc20ba8..ed092907 100644
--- a/docs/guide/defining-documents.rst
+++ b/docs/guide/defining-documents.rst
@@ -432,10 +432,10 @@ Document collections
 ====================
 Document classes that inherit **directly** from :class:`~mongoengine.Document`
 will have their own **collection** in the database. The name of the collection
-is by default the name of the class, converted to lowercase (so in the example
-above, the collection would be called `page`). If you need to change the name
-of the collection (e.g. to use MongoEngine with an existing database), then
-create a class dictionary attribute called :attr:`meta` on your document, and
+is by default the name of the class converted to snake_case (e.g if your Document class
+is named `CompanyUser`, the corresponding collection would be `company_user`). If you need
+to change the name of the collection (e.g. to use MongoEngine with an existing database),
+then create a class dictionary attribute called :attr:`meta` on your document, and
 set :attr:`collection` to the name of the collection that you want your
 document class to use::
 
diff --git a/mongoengine/document.py b/mongoengine/document.py
index de00740b..8cdce1d0 100644
--- a/mongoengine/document.py
+++ b/mongoengine/document.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class Document(BaseDocument, metaclass=TopLevelDocumentMetaclass):
 
     By default, the MongoDB collection used to store documents created using a
     :class:`~mongoengine.Document` subclass will be the name of the subclass
-    converted to lowercase. A different collection may be specified by
+    converted to snake_case. A different collection may be specified by
     providing :attr:`collection` to the :attr:`meta` dictionary in the class
     definition.