diff --git a/eyecite/utils.py b/eyecite/utils.py
index 509bc72..c5155eb 100644
--- a/eyecite/utils.py
+++ b/eyecite/utils.py
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 import hashlib
 import json
 import re
-
 from lxml import etree
 
-
 def strip_punct(text: str) -> str:
     """Strips punctuation from a given string
     Adapted from nltk Penn Treebank tokenizer
@@ -122,7 +120,7 @@ def hash_sha256(dictionary: dict) -> int:
     """
 
     # Convert the dictionary to a JSON string
-    json_str: str = json.dumps(dictionary, sort_keys=True,default=str)
+    json_str: str = json.dumps(dictionary, sort_keys=True, default=str)
 
     # Convert the JSON string to bytes
     json_bytes: bytes = json_str.encode("utf-8")