diff --git a/source/core/read.txt b/source/core/read.txt
index 69b88f176c3..e4a1c1847b9 100644
--- a/source/core/read.txt
+++ b/source/core/read.txt
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ syntax:
 Return All Documents in a Collection
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-If there is no ``<query>`` argument, the :method:`
-~db.collection.find()` method selects all documents from a collection.
+If there is no ``<query>`` argument, the :method:`~db.collection.find()`
+method selects all documents from a collection.
 
 The following operation returns all documents (or more precisely, a
 cursor to all documents) in the ``bios`` collection:
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ more information regarding cursors.
 .. [#dbquery-server] Regardless of the order you chain the
    :method:`~cursor.limit()` and the :method:`~cursor.sort()`, the
    request to the server has the structure that treats the
-   query and the :method:` ~cursor.sort()` modifier as a single object.
+   query and the :method:`~cursor.sort()` modifier as a single object.
    Therefore, the :method:`~cursor.limit()` operation method is always
    applied after the :method:`~cursor.sort()` regardless of the
    specified order of the operations in the chain. See the :doc:`meta