diff --git a/doc/src/Developer_utils.rst b/doc/src/Developer_utils.rst
index 76e90e17ba..2923e5b29c 100644
--- a/doc/src/Developer_utils.rst
+++ b/doc/src/Developer_utils.rst
@@ -211,6 +211,9 @@ Argument processing
 .. doxygenfunction:: bounds
    :project: progguide
 
+.. doxygenfunction:: bounds_typelabel
+   :project: progguide
+
 .. doxygenfunction:: expand_args
    :project: progguide
 
diff --git a/src/utils.h b/src/utils.h
index 3f2ef378ec..8e4a6cc17a 100644
--- a/src/utils.h
+++ b/src/utils.h
@@ -331,12 +331,25 @@ namespace utils {
   void bounds(const char *file, int line, const std::string &str, bigint nmin, bigint nmax,
               TYPE &nlo, TYPE &nhi, Error *error);
 
-  /*! Same as bounds(), but supports type labels
-   *
-   * This functions adds the following case:
-   *
-   * - a single type label, typestr: nlo = nhi = label2type(typestr)
+  /*! Same as bounds(), but supports type labels in addition
    *
+\verbatim embed:rst
+
+.. versionadded:: 27June2024
+
+This functions adds the following case to :cpp:func:`utils::bounds() <LAMMPS_NS::utils::bounds>`:
+
+   - a single type label, typestr: nlo = nhi = label2type(typestr)
+
+\endverbatim
+
+   * \param file     name of source file for error message
+   * \param line     line number in source file for error message
+   * \param str      string to be processed
+   * \param nmin     smallest possible lower bound
+   * \param nmax     largest allowed upper bound
+   * \param nlo      lower bound
+   * \param nhi      upper bound
    * \param lmp      pointer to top-level LAMMPS class instance
    * \param mode     select labelmap using constants from Atom class */
 
@@ -418,8 +431,8 @@ namespace utils {
    * \return index  which column of data is referenced (0 for vec, 1-N for array)
    * \return        ArgINFO::COMPUTE or FIX or UNKNOWN or NONE */
 
-  int check_grid_reference(char *errstr, char *ref, int nevery,
-                           char *&id, int &igrid, int &idata, int &index, LAMMPS *lmp);
+  int check_grid_reference(char *errstr, char *ref, int nevery, char *&id, int &igrid, int &idata,
+                           int &index, LAMMPS *lmp);
 
   /*! Parse grid reference into 3 sub-strings
    *
@@ -501,7 +514,7 @@ or the *-suffix/-sf* command line flag and return correspondingly modified strin
 
   std::string strip_style_suffix(const std::string &style, LAMMPS *lmp);
 
-/*! Check if a string will likely have UTF-8 encoded characters
+  /*! Check if a string will likely have UTF-8 encoded characters
    *
    * UTF-8 uses the 7-bit standard ASCII table for the first 127 characters and
    * all other characters are encoded as multiple bytes.  For the multi-byte