diff --git a/lisp/org-exp.el b/lisp/org-exp.el
index 9aac3213e..d09e4e230 100644
--- a/lisp/org-exp.el
+++ b/lisp/org-exp.el
@@ -2412,7 +2412,7 @@ TYPE must be a string, any of:
   (let ((case-fold-search t)
 	params file markup lang start end prefix prefix1 switches all minlevel currentlevel addlevel lines)
     (goto-char (point-min))
-    (while (re-search-forward "^#\\+INCLUDE:?[ \t]+\\(.*\\)" nil t)
+    (while (re-search-forward "^#\\+include:?[ \t]+\\(.*\\)" nil t)
       (setq params (read (concat "(" (match-string 1) ")"))
 	    prefix (org-get-and-remove-property 'params :prefix)
 	    prefix1 (org-get-and-remove-property 'params :prefix1)
diff --git a/lisp/org-publish.el b/lisp/org-publish.el
index cfd81f0fe..9ba715954 100644
--- a/lisp/org-publish.el
+++ b/lisp/org-publish.el
@@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ so that the file including them will be republished as well."
       (setq buf (find-file (expand-file-name filename)))
       (with-current-buffer buf
 	(goto-char (point-min))
-	(while (re-search-forward "^#\\+include:[ \t]+\"\\([^\t\n\r\"]*\\)\"[ \t]*.*$" nil t)
+	(while (re-search-forward "^#\\+include:?[ \t]+\"\\([^\t\n\r\"]*\\)\"[ \t]*.*$" nil t)
 	  (let* ((included-file (expand-file-name (match-string 1))))
 	    (add-to-list 'included-files-ctime
 			 (org-publish-cache-ctime-of-src included-file) t))))