diff --git a/doc/source/merging.rst b/doc/source/merging.rst
index cfd3f9e88e4ea..74b21c21252ec 100644
--- a/doc/source/merging.rst
+++ b/doc/source/merging.rst
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ and ``right`` is a subclass of DataFrame, the return type will still be
 
 ``merge`` is a function in the pandas namespace, and it is also available as a
 ``DataFrame`` instance method :meth:`~DataFrame.merge`, with the calling 
-``DataFrame `` being implicitly considered the left object in the join.
+``DataFrame`` being implicitly considered the left object in the join.
 
 The related :meth:`~DataFrame.join` method, uses ``merge`` internally for the
 index-on-index (by default) and column(s)-on-index join. If you are joining on
@@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ Overlapping value columns
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 The merge ``suffixes`` argument takes a tuple of list of strings to append to
-overlapping column names in the input ``DataFrame``s to disambiguate the result
+overlapping column names in the input ``DataFrame``\ s to disambiguate the result
 columns:
 
 .. ipython:: python
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.1.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.1.txt
index 6e5e113e859d7..e1b561c4deacb 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.1.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.1.txt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ We can render the HTML to get the following table.
    :file: whatsnew_0171_html_table.html
 
 :class:`~pandas.core.style.Styler` interacts nicely with the Jupyter Notebook.
-See the :ref:`documentation <style.ipynb>` for more.
+See the :doc:`documentation <style>` for more.
 
 .. _whatsnew_0171.enhancements:
 
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
index d04a34f7a44d6..5f22b518ab6c4 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ For example, after running the following, ``styled.xlsx`` renders as below:
    import os
    os.remove('styled.xlsx')
 
-See the :ref:`Style documentation <style.ipynb#Export-to-Excel>` for more detail.
+See the :ref:`Style documentation </style.ipynb#Export-to-Excel>` for more detail.
 
 .. _whatsnew_0200.enhancements.intervalindex:
 
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ Other Enhancements
 - ``DataFrame.to_excel()`` has a new ``freeze_panes`` parameter to turn on Freeze Panes when exporting to Excel (:issue:`15160`)
 - ``pd.read_html()`` will parse multiple header rows, creating a MutliIndex header. (:issue:`13434`).
 - HTML table output skips ``colspan`` or ``rowspan`` attribute if equal to 1. (:issue:`15403`)
-- :class:`pandas.io.formats.style.Styler` template now has blocks for easier extension, :ref:`see the example notebook <style.ipynb#Subclassing>` (:issue:`15649`)
+- :class:`pandas.io.formats.style.Styler` template now has blocks for easier extension, see the :ref:`example notebook </style.ipynb#Subclassing>` (:issue:`15649`)
 - :meth:`Styler.render() <pandas.io.formats.style.Styler.render>` now accepts ``**kwargs`` to allow user-defined variables in the template (:issue:`15649`)
 - Compatibility with Jupyter notebook 5.0; MultiIndex column labels are left-aligned and MultiIndex row-labels are top-aligned (:issue:`15379`)
 - ``TimedeltaIndex`` now has a custom date-tick formatter specifically designed for nanosecond level precision (:issue:`8711`)
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.23.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.23.0.txt
index e83f149db1f18..9e561a288f1d8 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.23.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.23.0.txt
@@ -330,7 +330,6 @@ for storing ip addresses.
 .. code-block:: ipython
 
    In [3]: ser = pd.Series(values)
-      ...:
 
    In [4]: ser
    Out[4]:
@@ -342,8 +341,9 @@ for storing ip addresses.
 Notice that the dtype is ``ip``. The missing value semantics of the underlying
 array are respected:
 
+.. code-block:: ipython
+
    In [5]: ser.isna()
-      ...:
    Out[5]:
    0     True
    1    False