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@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ If you use ViralMSA in your work, please cite:
 
 > Moshiri N (2021). "ViralMSA: Massively scalable reference-guided multiple sequence alignment of viral genomes." *Bioinformatics*. 37(5):714–716. [doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa743](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa743)
 
-If you use the ViralMSA web application (rather than the command line tool), please also cite:
+If you use the ViralMSA web application (rather than the command line tool), please *also* cite:
 
 > Ji D, Aboukhalil R, Moshiri N (2023). "ViralWasm: a client-side user-friendly web application suite for viral genomics." *Bioinformatics*. btae018. [doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btae018](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae018)