diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
index 41378a97dce39..582f975f81a7a 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
@@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ Reshaping
 Categorical
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
 
--- Bug in ``DataFrame.sort_values`` not respecting the ``kind`` parameter with categorical data (:issue:`16793`)
+- Bug in ``DataFrame.sort_values`` not respecting the ``kind`` parameter with categorical data (:issue:`16793`)