diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7ad12363f..22933f871 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+    "setuptools >= 35.0.2",
+    "setuptools_scm >= 2.0.0, <3",
+    "wheel >= 0.29.0",
+]
+
 [tool.towncrier]
     package = "tox"
     filename = "CHANGELOG.rst"
diff --git a/readthedocs.yml b/readthedocs.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ceba07a66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/readthedocs.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+build:
+      image: latest
+python:
+    version: 3.6
+    pip_install: true
+    extra_requirements:
+        - docs