diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 44b5a4d610..981f1a9c2a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Contributing
 
+## General guidelines
+
+These apply to any work at Liferay, including in this monorepo:
+
+-   [Guidelines](guidelines) (in particular, see the [`guidelines/general`](guidelines/general) directory).
+
 ## Project-specific contribution guidelines
 
 -   [`eslint-config`](projects/eslint-config/CONTRIBUTING.md)
@@ -15,3 +21,23 @@
 -   [Creating a project](CONTRIBUTING/creating-a-project.md)
 -   [Importing a project](CONTRIBUTING/importing-a-project.md)
 -   [Migrating an npm package to the `@liferay` named scope](CONTRIBUTING/migrating-an-npm-package-to-the-liferay-named-scope.md)
+
+## Conventional commit scopes
+
+It is helpful to include [an optional scope in your commit messages](guidelines/general/commit_messages.md) so that people can see, at a glance, which commits affect which projects. Valid scopes correspond to project names such as:
+
+-   `eslint-config`
+-   `js-themes-toolkit`
+-   `js-toolkit`
+-   `npm-tools`
+
+And package names such as:
+
+-   `changelog-generator`
+-   `js-publish`
+-   `npm-scripts`
+-   `workspace-scripts`
+
+As well as the scope of `monorepo` to label cross-cutting changes that affect multiple projects and packages in the monorepo.
+
+**NOTE:** The preceding lists are non-exhaustive and for illustration purposes.
diff --git a/guidelines/README.md b/guidelines/README.md
index f676eadc90..6a699206ff 100644
--- a/guidelines/README.md
+++ b/guidelines/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ![guidelines](https://github.com/liferay/liferay-frontend-projects/workflows/guidelines/badge.svg)
 
-This is a live (changing) repository containing [general](/general) and [Liferay DXP-specific](/dxp) guidelines for doing Frontend Development at Liferay Inc.
+This is a live (changing) repository containing [general](general) and [Liferay DXP-specific](dxp) guidelines for doing Frontend Development at Liferay Inc.
 
 ## Guideline development