diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.2.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.2.rst
index 974f84d3b244a..f38657b1b4613 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.2.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.2.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Fixed regressions
 
 - Fixed regression in :func:`read_excel` that caused it to raise ``AttributeError`` when checking version of older xlrd versions (:issue:`38955`)
 - Fixed regression in :class:`DataFrame` constructor reordering element when construction from datetime ndarray with dtype not ``"datetime64[ns]"`` (:issue:`39422`)
-- Fixed regression in :class:`DataFrame.astype` and :class:`Series.astype` not casting to bytes dtype (:issue:`39474`)
+- Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.astype` and :meth:`Series.astype` not casting to bytes dtype (:issue:`39474`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`~DataFrame.to_pickle` failing to create bz2/xz compressed pickle files with ``protocol=5`` (:issue:`39002`)
 - Fixed regression in :func:`pandas.testing.assert_series_equal` and :func:`pandas.testing.assert_frame_equal` always raising ``AssertionError`` when comparing extension dtypes (:issue:`39410`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`~DataFrame.to_csv` opening ``codecs.StreamWriter`` in binary mode instead of in text mode and ignoring user-provided ``mode`` (:issue:`39247`)