diff --git a/.ci/build_pypi_dist.sh b/.ci/build_pypi_dist.sh
index 99410dbe6f4cb9f4739633584b1730adda46c690..bb99538adbcbdbac21ad2cd701c528d00fac952f 100644
--- a/.ci/build_pypi_dist.sh
+++ b/.ci/build_pypi_dist.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 
 set -e
 
-pip install wheel
+pip install wheel setuptools twine
 python setup.py sdist
 python setup.py bdist_wheel
+twine check dist/*
 
 # do a test install from both source and wheel
 sdist=`find dist -maxdepth 1 -name *.tar.gz`
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 772c651588772068226ff2063c016ed2a8369eee..ac2f6b895b93c2ab54cd6db2ec719754e7200bfe 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -40,11 +40,12 @@ Dependencies
 ------------
 
 
-All of the core dependencies of ``fslpy`` are listed in the `requirements.txt
-<requirements.txt>`_ file.
+All of the core dependencies of ``fslpy`` are listed in the
+`requirements.txt <requirements.txt>`_ file.
 
-Some extra dependencies are listed in `requirements.txt
-<requirements-extra.txt>`_ which provide addditional functionality:
+Some extra dependencies are listed in
+`requirements-extra.txt <requirements-extra.txt>`_
+which provide addditional functionality:
 
 - ``wxPython``: The `fsl.utils.idle <fsl/utils/idle.py>`_ module has
   functionality  to schedule functions on the ``wx`` idle loop.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4bb48c2323f30ea2b05be4aff6b7c964ebdefa79..8693d37c5eef988bc747e9b81c42afc5e852b81b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ setup(
     version=version,
     description='FSL Python library',
     long_description=readme,
+    long_description_content_type='text/x-rst',
     url='https://git.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslpy',
     author='Paul McCarthy',
     author_email='pauldmccarthy@gmail.com',