diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt
index b2fa93e05f..84e4597842 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt
@@ -69,9 +69,10 @@ and override the template name::
         template_name = "about.html"
 
 Then we just need to add this new view into our URLconf.
-`~django.views.generic.base.TemplateView` is a class, not a function, so we
-point the URL to the :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` class
-method instead, which provides a function-like entry to class-based views::
+:class:`~django.views.generic.base.TemplateView` is a class, not a function,
+so we point the URL to the :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view`
+class method instead, which provides a function-like entry to class-based
+views::
 
     # urls.py
     from django.conf.urls import patterns
diff --git a/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt b/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
index 5c8725172a..a6670531da 100644
--- a/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ This example is equivalent to::
 
    The arguments could be:
 
-   * A model: the model's `get_absolute_url()` function will be called.
+   * A model: the model's :meth:`~django.db.models.Model.get_absolute_url()`
+     function will be called.
 
    * A view name, possibly with arguments: :func:`urlresolvers.reverse
      <django.core.urlresolvers.reverse>` will be used to reverse-resolve the