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``)
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/add-load-list-cmd-35a4a2e6ea0a36fd.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/add-load-list-cmd-35a4a2e6ea0a36fd.yaml
index 403bbad..145e7dd 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/add-load-list-cmd-35a4a2e6ea0a36fd.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/add-load-list-cmd-35a4a2e6ea0a36fd.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 features:
   - |
-    Adds a new cli option to tempest run, --load-list <list-file>
+    Adds a new cli option to tempest run, ``--load-list <list-file>``
     to specify target tests to run from a list-file. The list-file
-    supports the output format of the tempest run --list-tests
+    supports the output format of the tempest run ``--list-tests``
     command.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/add-save-state-option-5ea67858cbaca969.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/add-save-state-option-5ea67858cbaca969.yaml
index 8fdf4f0..abd2610 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/add-save-state-option-5ea67858cbaca969.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/add-save-state-option-5ea67858cbaca969.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 ---
 features:
   - |
-    Add --save-state option to allow saving state of cloud before tempest run.
+    Add ``--save-state`` option to allow saving state of cloud before
+    tempest run.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/cli-tests-v3fixes-fb38189cefd64213.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/cli-tests-v3fixes-fb38189cefd64213.yaml
index e3443c8..2a0a86c 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/cli-tests-v3fixes-fb38189cefd64213.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/cli-tests-v3fixes-fb38189cefd64213.yaml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 other:
   - |
     The CLIClient class, when it calls a command line client, uses
-    --os-project-name instead of --os-tenant-name for the project, and
-    passes --os-identity-api-version (default empty).
+    ``--os-project-name`` instead of ``--os-tenant-name`` for the
+    project, and passes ``--os-identity-api-version`` (default empty).
     All CLI clients still available in supported releases of OpenStack
-    which are wrapped by the cmd_with_auth() method support those
+    which are wrapped by the ``cmd_with_auth()`` method support those
     switches.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/tempest-run-fix-updates-564b41706decbba1.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/tempest-run-fix-updates-564b41706decbba1.yaml
index 265853d..0f9a0f6 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/tempest-run-fix-updates-564b41706decbba1.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/tempest-run-fix-updates-564b41706decbba1.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 features:
   - |
-    Adds a new CLI arg in tempest run, --black-regex, which is a regex to
-    exclude the tests that match it.
+    Adds a new CLI arg in tempest run, ``--black-regex``, which is a
+    regex to exclude the tests that match it.
 fixes:
   - |
     Fixes tempest run CLI args mutually exclusive behavior which should not
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/tempest-workspace-delete-directory-feature-74d6d157a5a05561.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/tempest-workspace-delete-directory-feature-74d6d157a5a05561.yaml
index ec21098..c69ed50 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/tempest-workspace-delete-directory-feature-74d6d157a5a05561.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/tempest-workspace-delete-directory-feature-74d6d157a5a05561.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
 features:
   - |
-    Added tempest workspace remove --name <workspace_name> --rmdir
+    Added tempest workspace remove ``--name <workspace_name> --rmdir``
     feature to delete the workspace directory as well as entry.