diff --git a/src/common-principles.md b/src/common-principles.md
index 716dbd8c6d..4e5509ac7b 100644
--- a/src/common-principles.md
+++ b/src/common-principles.md
@@ -775,7 +775,9 @@ the value for field "`RepetitionTime`" is therefore overridden to the value `3.0
 The value for field "`EchoTime`" remains applicable to that image, and is not unset by its
 absence in the metadata file at the lower level (rule 5.b; corollary 3).
 
-A single `scans.json`, without any entity in the filename at the top level, is applicable to describe columns of the `sub-01_scans.tsv` and any other `_scans.tsv` potentially present in the dataset for other subjects.
+A single `scans.json`, without any entity in the filename at the top level,
+is applicable to describe columns of the `sub-01_scans.tsv`
+and any other `_scans.tsv` potentially present in the dataset for other subjects.
 
 Example 2: Impermissible use of multiple metadata files at one directory level (rule 4)