diff --git a/types/docopt/docopt-tests.ts b/types/docopt/docopt-tests.ts
index 8d68355b27..fee97222ca 100644
--- a/types/docopt/docopt-tests.ts
+++ b/types/docopt/docopt-tests.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import docopt = require("docopt");
+import { docopt } from "docopt";
 
 var doc = `
 Usage:
diff --git a/types/docopt/index.d.ts b/types/docopt/index.d.ts
index 8d8b23a0c0..24e19d5ea8 100644
--- a/types/docopt/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/docopt/index.d.ts
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@
 /**
  * @param doc should be a string with the help message, written according to rules of the docopt language.
  */
-declare function docopt(doc: string, options: DocoptOption): any;
-
-export = docopt;
+export function docopt(doc: string, options: DocoptOption): any;
 
 interface DocoptOption {
     /** is an optional argument vector. It defaults to the arguments passed to your program (process.argv[2..]). You can also supply it with an array of strings, as with process.argv. For example: ['--verbose', '-o', 'hai.txt'] */