diff --git a/docs/source/changes.txt b/docs/source/changes.txt
index 5867ab3..477d87a 100644
--- a/docs/source/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/source/changes.txt
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ Highlights of this release:
   in remote tasks, as well as providing better control for remote task IDs.
 
 - New IPython Sphinx directive contributed by John Hunter.  You can use this
-  directive to mark blocks in reSructuredText documents as containig IPython
-  syntax (including figures) and the will be executed during the build::
+  directive to mark blocks in reSructuredText documents as containing IPython
+  syntax (including figures) and the will be executed during the build:
 
-  .. ipython::
+  .. sourcecode:: ipython
 
       In [2]: plt.figure()  # ensure a fresh figure