diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/how-to-contribute.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/how-to-contribute.adoc
index 68eb46de75e..a590b3a5b56 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/how-to-contribute.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/how-to-contribute.adoc
@@ -3,15 +3,33 @@
 :page-toclevels: 2
 :page-shortname: how-to-contribute
 :page-permalink: how-to-contribute.html
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
 
 The Lucene/Solr project has made it easy for anyone to contribute to the Solr Reference Guide with a patch.
 
 The Guide is written in simple AsciiDoc-formatted files, and the source lives in the main Lucene/Solr source repository, right alongside the code.
 
+// This section only appears in the PDF version of the Ref Guide.
 ifdef::backend-pdf[]
 See the latest information on how to contribute to documentation online at https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/meta-docs.html.
 endif::[]
 
+// This section only appears in the HTML version of the Ref Guide.
 ifdef::backend-html5[]
 The following sections give an overview of how to work with AsciiDoc-format files, how our documentation is generated, and how to do a Ref Guide release.
 
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/asciidoc-syntax.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/asciidoc-syntax.adoc
index 98fb20dd4e2..e0e5aec98d5 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/asciidoc-syntax.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/asciidoc-syntax.adoc
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 = AsciiDoc Syntax Cheatsheet
-:toc:
 // Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 // or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 // distributed with this work for additional information
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/jekyll.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/jekyll.adoc
index 329469ca919..f2a8b72a20e 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/jekyll.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/jekyll.adoc
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 = Making Changes to HTML Version
-:toc:
 // Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 // or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 // distributed with this work for additional information
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/publish.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/publish.adoc
index 29fbe1fbd4a..5476fc30742 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/publish.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/meta-docs/publish.adoc
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 = Publication Process
-:toc:
 // Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 // or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 // distributed with this work for additional information