diff --git a/doc/source/development/contributing_docstring.rst b/doc/source/development/contributing_docstring.rst
index 0c780ad5f5847..33f30e1d97512 100644
--- a/doc/source/development/contributing_docstring.rst
+++ b/doc/source/development/contributing_docstring.rst
@@ -32,18 +32,18 @@ The next example gives an idea of what a docstring looks like:
         Parameters
         ----------
         num1 : int
-            First number to add
+            First number to add.
         num2 : int
-            Second number to add
+            Second number to add.
 
         Returns
         -------
         int
-            The sum of `num1` and `num2`
+            The sum of `num1` and `num2`.
 
         See Also
         --------
-        subtract : Subtract one integer from another
+        subtract : Subtract one integer from another.
 
         Examples
         --------
@@ -998,4 +998,4 @@ mapping function names to docstrings. Wherever possible, we prefer using
 
 See ``pandas.core.generic.NDFrame.fillna`` for an example template, and
 ``pandas.core.series.Series.fillna`` and ``pandas.core.generic.frame.fillna``
-for the filled versions.
\ No newline at end of file
+for the filled versions.