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 If you use this code, please cite our papers:
 
-```text
+```bibtex
 @inproceedings{Batatia2022mace,
   title={{MACE}: Higher Order Equivariant Message Passing Neural Networks for Fast and Accurate Force Fields},
   author={Ilyes Batatia and David Peter Kovacs and Gregor N. C. Simm and Christoph Ortner and Gabor Csanyi},