diff --git a/doc/source/user/basics.creation.rst b/doc/source/user/basics.creation.rst
index a97d69d8b6a3..40b4e378d788 100644
--- a/doc/source/user/basics.creation.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user/basics.creation.rst
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ and :func:`numpy.genfromtxt`. These functions have more involved use cases in
  2, 4
  3, 9
 
-Importing ``simple.csv`` is accomplished using :func:`loadtxt`::
+Importing ``simple.csv`` is accomplished using :func:`numpy.loadtxt`::
 
  >>> np.loadtxt('simple.csv', delimiter = ',', skiprows = 1) # doctest: +SKIP
  array([[0., 0.],
diff --git a/doc/source/user/how-to-verify-bug.rst b/doc/source/user/how-to-verify-bug.rst
index 4fc58c707bd4..6e76f453a134 100644
--- a/doc/source/user/how-to-verify-bug.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user/how-to-verify-bug.rst
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ The report references NumPy version 1.18.4, so that is the version you need to
 install in this case.
 
 Since this bug is tied to a release and not a specific commit, a pre-built wheel
-installed in your virtual environment via `pip` will suffice::
+installed in your virtual environment via ``pip`` will suffice::
 
     pip install numpy==1.18.4