diff --git a/contributing.md b/contributing.md
index d161d7a..d5104ad 100644
--- a/contributing.md
+++ b/contributing.md
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@
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 OpenBMC has quite a modular structure, consisting of small daemons with a
-limited set of responsibilities. These communicate over dbus with other
+limited set of responsibilities. These communicate over D-Bus with other
 components, to implement the complete BMC system.
 
 The BMC's interfaces to the external world are typically through a separate
-daemon, which then translates those requests to dbus messages.
+daemon, which then translates those requests to D-Bus messages.
 
 These separate projects are then compiled into the final system by the
 overall 'openbmc' build infrastructure.
@@ -156,15 +156,15 @@
 these, making future maintenance difficult.
 
 
-Best practices for dbus interfaces
+Best practices for D-Bus interfaces
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- * New dbus interfaces should be reusable
+ * New D-Bus interfaces should be reusable
 
  * Type signatures should and use the simplest types possible, appropriate
    for the data passed. For example, don't pass numbers as ASCII strings.
 
- * New dbus interfaces should be documented in the 'docs' repository, at:
+ * New D-Bus interfaces should be documented in the 'docs' repository, at:
 
      https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/dbus-interfaces.md