diff --git a/doc/api/api_changes.rst b/doc/api/api_changes.rst
index c887a3378ba3..7b9d3106a060 100644
--- a/doc/api/api_changes.rst
+++ b/doc/api/api_changes.rst
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ API Changes for 3.0.1
 `.tight_layout.auto_adjust_subplotpars` can return ``None`` now if the new
 subplotparams will collapse axes to zero width or height.  This prevents
 ``tight_layout`` from being executed.  Similarly
-`.tight_layout.get_tight_layout_figure` will return None.  
+`.tight_layout.get_tight_layout_figure` will return None.
 
 API Changes for 3.0.0
 =====================
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ Removals
 Hold machinery
 ``````````````
 
-Setting or unsetting ``hold`` (deprecated in version 2.1) has now
+Setting or unsetting ``hold`` (:ref:`deprecated in version 2.0<v200_deprecate_hold>`) has now
 been completely removed. Matplotlib now always behaves as if ``hold=True``.
 To clear an axes you can manually use :meth:`~.axes.Axes.cla()`,
 or to clear an entire figure use :meth:`~.figure.Figure.clf()`.
diff --git a/doc/api/prev_api_changes/api_changes_2.0.0.rst b/doc/api/prev_api_changes/api_changes_2.0.0.rst
index 047413abe8b0..3545db300368 100644
--- a/doc/api/prev_api_changes/api_changes_2.0.0.rst
+++ b/doc/api/prev_api_changes/api_changes_2.0.0.rst
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ The TkAgg backend had its own implementation of the `round` function. This
 was unused internally and has been removed. Instead, use either the
 `round` builtin function or `numpy.round`.
 
+.. _v200_deprecate_hold:
+
 'hold' functionality deprecated
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 The 'hold' keyword argument and all functions and methods related