diff --git a/keras/datasets/reuters.py b/keras/datasets/reuters.py
index 19b27949d84..38cc15e33d9 100644
--- a/keras/datasets/reuters.py
+++ b/keras/datasets/reuters.py
@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ def load_data(
       skip_top: skip the top N most frequently occurring words
           (which may not be informative). These words will appear as
           `oov_char` value in the dataset. 0 means no words are
-          skipped. Defaults to 0
+          skipped. Defaults to `0`.
       maxlen: int or None. Maximum sequence length.
           Any longer sequence will be truncated. None means no truncation.
           Defaults to `None`.
-      test_split: Float between 0 and 1. Fraction of the dataset to be used
-        as test data. 0.2 means that 20% of the dataset is used as
-        test data. Defaults to 0.2
+      test_split: Float between `0.` and `1.`. Fraction of the dataset to be
+        used as test data. `0.2` means that 20% of the dataset is used as
+        test data. Defaults to `0.2`.
       seed: int. Seed for reproducible data shuffling.
       start_char: int. The start of a sequence will be marked with this
           character. 0 is usually the padding character. Defaults to `1`.