diff --git a/gnu/packages/serialization.scm b/gnu/packages/serialization.scm
index 266d2eeee..7d25e0d91 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/serialization.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/serialization.scm
@@ -399,13 +399,12 @@ style and key ordering are kept, so you can diff the source.")
         (base32
          "1dmv163cnslyqccrybkxn0c9s1jk1mmafmgxv75iamnz5lk5l8hk"))))
     (build-system python-build-system)
-    (home-page
-     "https://bitbucket.org/bodhisnarkva/cbor")
-    (synopsis "Implementation of Concise Binary Object Representation")
+    (home-page "https://bitbucket.org/bodhisnarkva/cbor")
+    (synopsis "Implementation of the Concise Binary Object Representation")
     (description
-     "Python-cbor provides an implementation of
-Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR).  CBOR is comparable to
-JSON, has a superset of JSON’s ability, but serializes to a binary format
-which is smaller and faster to generate and parse.
-The two primary functions are cbor.loads() and cbor.dumps().")
+     "Python-cbor provides an implementation of the Concise Binary Object
+Representation (CBOR).  CBOR is comparable to JSON, has a superset of JSON's
+ability, but serializes to a binary format which is smaller and faster to
+generate and parse.  The two primary functions are @code{cbor.loads} and
+@code{cbor.dumps}.")
     (license license:asl2.0)))