diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The prerequisites for locally building KickC is Java JDK 8 and Apache Maven.
 The steps to build KickC is
 
 1.  Download, Fork or Clone the source code from https://gitlab.com/camelot/kickc 
-2.  Build and package the KickC compiler by entering the source directory and executing "mvn package"
+2.  Build and package the KickC compiler by entering the source directory and executing `mvn package`