diff -r 2672391e6055 lisp/textmodes/reftex-cite.el
--- a/lisp/textmodes/reftex-cite.el	Sat Mar 27 02:34:27 2021 +0900
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/reftex-cite.el	Tue Dec 20 22:58:10 2022 +0900
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@
 
 ;; Parse the bibliography environment
 (defun reftex-extract-bib-entries-from-thebibliography (files)
-  "Extract bib-entries from the \begin{thebibliography} environment.
+  "Extract bib-entries from the \\begin{thebibliography} environment.
 Parsing is not as good as for the BibTeX database stuff.
 The environment should be located in FILES."
   (let* (start end buf entries re re-list file default)
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@
     (concat key "\n     " authors " " year " " extra "\n     " title "\n\n")))
 
 (defun reftex-parse-bibitem (item)
-  "Parse a \bibitem entry in ITEM."
+  "Parse a \\bibitem entry in ITEM."
   (let ((key "") (text ""))
     (when (string-match "\\`{\\([^}]+\\)}\\([^\000]*\\)" item)
       (setq key (match-string 1 item)
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@
      (cons "&entry" (concat key " " text)))))
 
 (defun reftex-format-bibitem (item)
-  "Format a \bibitem entry in ITEM so that it is (relatively) nice to look at."
+  "Format a \\bibitem entry in ITEM so that it is (relatively) nice to look at."
   (let ((text (reftex-get-bib-field "&text" item))
         (key  (reftex-get-bib-field "&key" item))
         (lines nil))
diff -r 2672391e6055 lisp/textmodes/reftex-vars.el
--- a/lisp/textmodes/reftex-vars.el	Sat Mar 27 02:34:27 2021 +0900
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/reftex-vars.el	Tue Dec 20 22:58:10 2022 +0900
@@ -2090,7 +2090,7 @@
 
 (defcustom reftex-allow-detached-macro-args nil
   "Non-nil means, allow arguments of macros to be detached by whitespace.
-When this is t, `aaa' will be considered as argument of \\bb in the following
+When this is t, `aaa' will be considered as argument of \\bbb in the following
 construct:  \\bbb [xxx] {aaa}."
   :group 'reftex-miscellaneous-configurations
   :type 'boolean)