@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ class AxisError(ValueError, IndexError):
     For compatibility with code written against older numpy versions, which
     raised a mixture of `ValueError` and `IndexError` for this situation, this
     exception subclasses both to ensure that ``except ValueError`` and
-    ``except IndexError`` statements continue to catch `AxisError`.
+    ``except IndexError`` statements continue to catch ``AxisError``.
 
     .. versionadded:: 1.13
 
 
@@ -531,7 +531,8 @@ def expand_dims(a, axis):
 
         .. versionchanged:: 1.18.0
             A tuple of axes is now supported.  Out of range axes as
-            described above are now forbidden and raise an `AxisError`.
+            described above are now forbidden and raise an
+            `~exceptions.AxisError`.
 
     Returns
     -------