diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/packaging-oci-image.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/packaging-oci-image.adoc
index 13de56ef8bd1..d34c1013aed0 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/packaging-oci-image.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/packaging-oci-image.adoc
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ The value supplied will be passed unvalidated to Docker when creating the builde
 | `tags`
 |
 | A list of one or more additional tags to apply to the generated image.
+The values provided to the `tags` option should be full image references in the form of `[image name]:[tag]` or `[repository]/[image name]:[tag]`.
 |
 
 | `buildCache`