diff --git a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
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@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ Thanks for submitting a PR, your contribution is really appreciated!
 
 Here's a quick checklist that should be present in PRs:
 
-- [ ] Target: for bug or doc fixes, target `master`; for new features, target `features`
-- [ ] Make sure to include one or more tests for your change
-- [ ] Add yourself to `AUTHORS`
-- [ ] Add a new entry to the `CHANGELOG` (choose any open position to avoid merge conflicts with other PRs) 
+- [ ] Target: for bug or doc fixes, target `master`; for new features, target `features`;
+- [ ] Make sure to include one or more tests for your change;
+- [ ] Add yourself to `AUTHORS`;
+- [ ] Add a new entry to `CHANGELOG.rst`
+  * Choose any open position to avoid merge conflicts with other PRs.
+  * Add a link to the issue you are fixing (if any) using RST syntax.
+  * The pytest team likes to have people to acknowledged in the `CHANGELOG`, so please add a thank note to yourself ("Thanks @user for the PR") and a link to your GitHub profile. It may sound weird thanking yourself, but otherwise a maintainer would have to do it manually before or after merging instead of just using GitHub's merge button. This makes it easier on the maintainers to merge PRs.