diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/publishing.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/publishing.adoc
index 5bb1e97017..5e81ff2e14 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/publishing.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/publishing.adoc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 
 [[publishing-your-application-maven]]
-=== Publishing with the Maven Plugin
+=== Publishing with the `maven` Plugin
 When the {maven-plugin}[`maven` plugin] is applied, an `Upload` task for the `bootArchives` configuration named `uploadBootArchives` is automatically created.
 By default, the `bootArchives` configuration contains the archive produced by the `bootJar` or `bootWar` task.
 The `uploadBootArchives` task can be configured to publish the archive to a Maven repository:
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ include::../gradle/publishing/maven.gradle.kts[tags=upload]
 
 
 [[publishing-your-application-maven-publish]]
-=== Publishing with the Maven-publish Plugin
+=== Publishing with the `maven-publish` Plugin
 To publish your Spring Boot jar or war, add it to the publication using the `artifact` method on `MavenPublication`.
 Pass the task that produces that artifact that you wish to publish to the `artifact` method.
 For example, to publish the artifact produced by the default `bootJar` task:
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ include::../gradle/publishing/maven-publish.gradle.kts[tags=publishing]
 
 
 [[publishing-your-application-distribution]]
-=== Distributing with the Application Plugin
+=== Distributing with the `application` Plugin
 When the {application-plugin}[`application` plugin] is applied a distribution named `boot` is created.
 This distribution contains the archive produced by the `bootJar` or `bootWar` task and scripts to launch it on Unix-like platforms and Windows.
 Zip and tar distributions can be built by the `bootDistZip` and `bootDistTar` tasks respectively.
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/reacting.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/reacting.adoc
index 0ba6b1f72e..6adeebefc5 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/reacting.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/docs/asciidoc/reacting.adoc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This section describes those changes.
 
 
 [[reacting-to-other-plugins-java]]
-=== Reacting to the Java Plugin
+=== Reacting to the `java` Plugin
 When Gradle's {java-plugin}[`java` plugin] is applied to a project, the Spring Boot plugin:
 
 1. Creates a {boot-jar-javadoc}[`BootJar`] task named `bootJar` that will create an executable, fat jar for the project.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ When {kotlin-plugin}[Kotlin's Gradle plugin] is applied to a project, the Spring
 
 
 [[reacting-to-other-plugins-war]]
-=== Reacting to the War Plugin
+=== Reacting to the `war` Plugin
 When Gradle's {war-plugin}[`war` plugin] is applied to a project, the Spring Boot plugin:
 
 1. Creates a {boot-war-javadoc}[`BootWar`] task named `bootWar` that will create an executable, fat war for the project.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ When the {dependency-management-plugin}[`io.spring.dependency-management` plugin
 
 
 [[reacting-to-other-plugins-application]]
-=== Reacting to the Application Plugin
+=== Reacting to the `application` Plugin
 When Gradle's {application-plugin}[`application` plugin] is applied to a project, the Spring Boot plugin:
 
 1. Creates a `CreateStartScripts` task named `bootStartScripts` that will create scripts that launch the artifact in the `bootArchives` configuration using `java -jar`.
@@ -64,5 +64,5 @@ When Gradle's {application-plugin}[`application` plugin] is applied to a project
 
 
 [[reacting-to-other-plugins-maven]]
-=== Reacting to the Maven plugin
+=== Reacting to the `maven` plugin
 When Gradle's {maven-plugin}[`maven` plugin] is applied to a project, the Spring Boot plugin will configure the `uploadBootArchives` `Upload` task to ensure that no dependencies are declared in the pom that it generates.