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+## Contribution guidelines
+Contributions to address any of the current issues are welcome. In order to push your contribution, just **push your pull request to the development branch (dev)**. The master branch has only the code associated to the latest release. 
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 ```
 inspect4py --help
 
-```
+
 Usage: inspect4py [OPTIONS]
 
 Options:
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 For additional documentation and examples, please have a look at our [online documentation](https://inspect4py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
 
+## Contribution guidelines
+Contributions to address any of the current issues are welcome. In order to push your contribution, just **push your pull request to the development branch (`dev`)**. The master branch has only the code associated to the latest release. 
+
 ## Acknowledgements
 
 We would like to thank Laura Camacho, designer of the logo