diff --git a/doc/bvar-a-la-sims.tex b/doc/bvar-a-la-sims.tex
index ca1621a41b17fa9db8f3996570476a5a0ddd035f..79c7dddb77075d4903780a1e80ef2844420d3baf 100644
--- a/doc/bvar-a-la-sims.tex
+++ b/doc/bvar-a-la-sims.tex
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 \author{S\'ebastien Villemot\thanks{Paris School of Economics and
     CEPREMAP. E-mail:
     \href{mailto:sebastien.villemot@ens.fr}{\texttt{sebastien.villemot@ens.fr}}.}}
-\date{First version: September 2007 \hspace{1cm} This version: September 2011}
+\date{First version: September 2007 \hspace{1cm} This version: August 2012}
 
 \maketitle
 
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ The command will actually compute the marginal density for several models: first
 
 \subsection{Forecasting}
 
-The syntax for computing forecasts is:
+The syntax for computing (out-of-sample) forecasts is:
 
 \medskip
 \texttt{bvar\_forecast(}\textit{options\_list}\texttt{) }\textit{max\_number\_of\_lags}\texttt{;}
diff --git a/doc/dynare.texi b/doc/dynare.texi
index 982a7356d9bf793858862dfc05f12d86605b87d4..86ba276e3d80baf777643b699c2195c4904d1877 100644
--- a/doc/dynare.texi
+++ b/doc/dynare.texi
@@ -4987,8 +4987,8 @@ declared in @code{conditional_forecast}.
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn Command bvar_forecast ;
-This command computes in-sample or out-sample forecasts for an
-estimated BVAR model, using Minnesota priors.
+This command computes (out-of-sample) forecasts for an estimated BVAR
+model, using Minnesota priors.
 
 See @file{bvar-a-la-sims.pdf}, which comes with Dynare distribution,
 for more information on this command.