diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
index 4a0f8c5c5..42b9aa72f 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -98,16 +98,16 @@ this command whenever there are changes to JavaScript or LESS sources::
 
     npm run build
 
-**IMPORTANT:** Don't forget to run ``npm run build`` after switching branches. 
-When switching between branches of different versions (e.g. ``4.x`` and 
-``master``), run ``pip install -e .``. If you have tried the above and still 
+**IMPORTANT:** Don't forget to run ``npm run build`` after switching branches.
+When switching between branches of different versions (e.g. ``4.x`` and
+``master``), run ``pip install -e .``. If you have tried the above and still
 find that the notebook is not reflecting the current source code, try cleaning
 the repo with ``git clean -xfd`` and reinstalling with ``pip install -e .``.
 
 Development Tip
 """""""""""""""
 
-When doing development, you can use this command to automatically rebuild 
+When doing development, you can use this command to automatically rebuild
 JavaScript and LESS sources as they are modified::
 
     npm run build:watch
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Git Hooks
 """""""""
 
 If you want to automatically update dependencies and recompile JavaScript and
-CSS after checking out a new commit, you can install post-checkout and 
+CSS after checking out a new commit, you can install post-checkout and
 post-merge hooks which will do it for you::
 
     git-hooks/install-hooks.sh
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Python Tests
 
 Install dependencies::
 
-    pip install -e .[test]
+    pip install -e '.[test]'
 
 To run the Python tests, use::