diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
index 93763a29..f93b44f4 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The documentation style is described at
 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/blob/main/meta/documentation_style.rst.
 
 Matrix-spec workflows
---------------------
+---------------------
 
 Specification changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ license - in our case, this is Apache Software License v2 (see LICENSE).
 In order to have a concrete record that your contribution is intentional
 and you agree to license it under the same terms as the project's license, we've adopted the
 same lightweight approach used by the `Linux Kernel <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html>`_,
-`Docker <https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md`_, and many other
+`Docker <https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>`_, and many other
 projects: the `Developer Certificate of Origin <http://developercertificate.org/>`_
 (DCO). This is a simple declaration that you wrote
 the contribution or otherwise have the right to contribute it to Matrix::
diff --git a/changelogs/internal/newsfragments/1769.clarification b/changelogs/internal/newsfragments/1769.clarification
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ebf8030d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/internal/newsfragments/1769.clarification
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Formatting fixes in CONTRIBUTING.rst.