diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 643267cebc..fd9283e2ef 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ To build Cats you should have
  * `scalastyle`: run the style-checker on the code
  * `validate`: run tests, style-checker, and doc generation
 
-#### Scala and Scala-js
+#### Scala and Scala.js
 
-Cats cross-compiles to both JVM and Javascript(JS). If you are not used to
+Cats cross-compiles to both JVM and JavaScript runtimes. If you are not used to
 working with cross-compiling builds, the first things that you will notice is that
 builds: