diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt
index 608c37bb7fd37..2014c7c183719 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/messages.txt
@@ -54,20 +54,21 @@ Storage backends
 
 The messages framework can use different backends to store temporary messages.
 
-Django provides three built-in storage classes:
+Django provides three built-in storage classes in
+:mod:`django.contrib.messages`:
 
-.. class:: django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage
+.. class:: storage.session.SessionStorage
 
     This class stores all messages inside of the request's session. Therefore
     it requires Django's ``contrib.sessions`` application.
 
-.. class:: django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage
+.. class:: storage.cookie.CookieStorage
 
     This class stores the message data in a cookie (signed with a secret hash
     to prevent manipulation) to persist notifications across requests. Old
     messages are dropped if the cookie data size would exceed 2048 bytes.
 
-.. class:: django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage
+.. class:: storage.fallback.FallbackStorage
 
     This class first uses ``CookieStorage``, and falls back to using
     ``SessionStorage`` for the messages that could not fit in a single cookie.
@@ -83,6 +84,8 @@ path, for example::
 
     MESSAGE_STORAGE = 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage'
 
+.. class:: storage.base.BaseStorage
+
 To write your own storage class, subclass the ``BaseStorage`` class in
 ``django.contrib.messages.storage.base`` and implement the ``_get`` and
 ``_store`` methods.
diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
index f700f6e19182d..1916f6377fb15 100644
--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -2241,7 +2241,9 @@ Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are:
 
 See :ref:`message storage backends <message-storage-backends>` for more details.
 
-The backends that use cookies -- ``CookieStorage`` and ``FallbackStorage`` --
+The backends that use cookies --
+:class:`~django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage` and
+:class:`~django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage` --
 use the value of :setting:`SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN` when setting their cookies.
 
 .. setting:: MESSAGE_TAGS