diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-add-content-type-without-spaces-b2c9b91b257814f3.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-add-content-type-without-spaces-b2c9b91b257814f3.yaml
index fc061bc..9ae46fd 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-add-content-type-without-spaces-b2c9b91b257814f3.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-add-content-type-without-spaces-b2c9b91b257814f3.yaml
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
     The lack of these additional content-type will cause defcore test
     to fail for OpenStack public cloud which uses tomcat module in the
     api gateway. The additions are ``application/json;charset=utf-8``,
-    ``text/html;charset=utf-8``,``text/plain;charset=utf-8``
\ No newline at end of file
+    ``text/html;charset=utf-8``, ``text/plain;charset=utf-8``
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-add-tempest-run-combine-option-e94c1049ba8985d5.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-add-tempest-run-combine-option-e94c1049ba8985d5.yaml
index 73900ca..e9c3694 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-add-tempest-run-combine-option-e94c1049ba8985d5.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-add-tempest-run-combine-option-e94c1049ba8985d5.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 features:
   - |
-    Adds a new cli option to tempest run, --combine, which is used to indicate
-    you want the subunit stream output combined with the previous run's in
-    the testr repository
+    Adds a new cli option to tempest run, ``--combine``, which is used
+    to indicate you want the subunit stream output combined with the
+    previous run's in the testr repository
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-remove-deprecated-allow_port_security_disabled-option-d0ffaeb2e7817707.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-remove-deprecated-allow_port_security_disabled-option-d0ffaeb2e7817707.yaml
index 9d7102f..5b4a96d 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-remove-deprecated-allow_port_security_disabled-option-d0ffaeb2e7817707.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-remove-deprecated-allow_port_security_disabled-option-d0ffaeb2e7817707.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
 upgrade:
   - |
-    The deprecated config option 'allow_port_security_disabled' from compute_feature_enabled
-    group has been removed.
+    The deprecated config option ``allow_port_security_disabled`` from
+    ``compute_feature_enabled`` group has been removed.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-remove-deprecated-compute-validation-config-options-part-2-5cd17b6e0e6cb8a3.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-remove-deprecated-compute-validation-config-options-part-2-5cd17b6e0e6cb8a3.yaml
index b4e4dd1..c8b0ca8 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-remove-deprecated-compute-validation-config-options-part-2-5cd17b6e0e6cb8a3.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/16/16.0.0-remove-deprecated-compute-validation-config-options-part-2-5cd17b6e0e6cb8a3.yaml
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@
     - ``compute.ssh_user`` (available as ``validation.image_ssh_user``)
     - ``scenario.ssh_user`` (available as ``validation.image_ssh_user``)
     - ``compute.network_for_ssh`` (available as ``validation.network_for_ssh``)
-    - ``compute.ping_timeout `` (available as ``validation.ping_timeout``)
+    - ``compute.ping_timeout`` (available as ``validation.ping_timeout``)