diff --git a/.github/release.yml b/.github/release.yml
index 69131e2a..b2764860 100644
--- a/.github/release.yml
+++ b/.github/release.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 changelog:
   exclude:
     authors:
-      - dependabot
-      - github-actions
-      - pre-commit-ci
-      - scientific-python-pr-tokenbot
+      - dependabot[bot]
+      - github-actions[bot]
+      - pre-commit-ci[bot]
+      - scientific-python-pr-tokenbot[bot]
diff --git a/docs/pages/guides/gha_basic.md b/docs/pages/guides/gha_basic.md
index 99f2905e..470b55a3 100644
--- a/docs/pages/guides/gha_basic.md
+++ b/docs/pages/guides/gha_basic.md
@@ -733,11 +733,14 @@ with code_fence("yaml"):
 changelog:
   exclude:
     authors:
-      - dependabot
-      - pre-commit-ci
+      - dependabot[bot]
+      - pre-commit-ci[bot]
 ```
 <!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
 <!-- [[[end]]] -->
 
-[gh-changelog]:
-  https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/automatically-generated-release-notes
+<!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
+
+[gh-changelog]: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/automatically-generated-release-notes
+
+<!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/.github/release.yml b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/.github/release.yml
index 9d1e0987..5f89818f 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/.github/release.yml
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/.github/release.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 changelog:
   exclude:
     authors:
-      - dependabot
-      - pre-commit-ci
+      - dependabot[bot]
+      - pre-commit-ci[bot]