diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md
index 0dc368140de67..fbc27982bfa0c 100644
--- a/BUILDING.md
+++ b/BUILDING.md
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ This document provides a general guidelines for using and working on the Elastic
 
 The Elasticsearch project contains 3 build-related projects that are included into the Elasticsearch build as a [composite build](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/composite_builds.html).
 
-### `build-conventions`
+### build-conventions
 
 This project contains build conventions that are applied to all Elasticsearch projects.
 
-### `build-tools`
+### build-tools
 
 This project contains all build logic that we publish for third party Elasticsearch plugin authors.
 We provide the following plugins:
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This project is published as part of the Elasticsearch release and accessible by
 `org.elasticsearch.gradle:build-tools:<versionNumber>`.
 These build tools are also used by the `elasticsearch-hadoop` project maintained by elastic.
 
-### `build-tools-internal`
+### build-tools-internal
 
 This project contains all Elasticsearch project specific build logic that is not meant to be shared
 with other internal or external projects.