diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 8a45eb29f..5785b4754 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ This file is a best-effort approach to solving this issue; we will do our best b
   * Handover joining timeout is now handled.
   * Handover leaving timeout is now handled.
   * Upon RACH failure during HO, the UE will perform cell selection again.
-* (network) Mac(8|16|48|64)Address address allocation pool is now reset between consecutive runs.
+* (network) `Mac(8|16|48|64)Address` address allocation pool is now reset between consecutive runs.
 * (propagation) The O2I Low/High Building Penetration Losses will add losses in the pathloss calculation when buildings are present and a UE results to be in O2I state. In order to not consider these losses, they can be disabled by setting BuildingPenetrationLossesEnabled to false.
 * (wifi) The **Channel** attribute of `WifiNetDevice` is deprecated because it became ambiguous with the introduction of multiple links per device. The **Channel** attribute of `WifiPhy` can be used instead.
 
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 4e5299f6c..8d211ef7b 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Please open an issue on `infrastructure` if you have suggestions for new labels,
 
 #### Merge Request Labels
 
-| Label name | Description
+| Label name | Description |
 | --- | --- |
 | `work-in-progress` | Merge requests which are still being worked on, more changes will follow. |
 | `needs-review` | Merge requests which need code review, and approval from maintainers or ns-3 core team. |
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index aa07ccc60..9a5b5a0b7 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@ This release is available from:
 - Bug 1853 - NS_LOG_FUNCTION broken on OSX 10.9
 - Bug 1855 - SixLowPanNetDevice is not correctly indexed
 - Bug 1857 - Detect location of installed boost libraries
-- Bug 1862 - NS_LOG="Time=*|prefix_time" causes stack overflow
+- Bug 1862 - `NS_LOG="Time=*|prefix_time"` causes stack overflow
 - Bug 1868 - Optimized builds are sensitive to -fstrict-overflow
 - Bug 1870 - Remove unnecessary AsInt functions
 - Bug 1872 - Inside RREQ processing, in case of IP duplication, packet dropped instead of being forwarded