diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7
index d14d25819..0eeaf89f4 100644
--- a/man7/namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/namespaces.7
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ that are members of the namespace, but are invisible to other processes.
 One use of namespaces is to implement containers.
 
 Linux provides the following namespaces:
-
 .TS
 lB lB lB
 l lB l.
@@ -196,7 +195,7 @@ and (since Linux 2.6.30)
 .\" commit 7eafd7c74c3f2e67c27621b987b28397110d643f
 .\" https://lwn.net/Articles/312232/
 POSIX message queues (see
-.BR mq_overview (7).
+.BR mq_overview (7)).
 The common characteristic of these IPC mechanisms is that IPC
 objects are identified by mechanisms other than filesystem
 pathnames.