diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
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--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -216,11 +216,11 @@ There are a few coding conventions we use in beets:
 Style
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-We follow `PEP 8`_ and `google's docstring format`_.
+We follow `black`_ formatting and `google's docstring format`_.
 
 You can use ``tox -e lint`` to check your code for any style errors.
 
-.. _PEP 8: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
+.. _black: https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
 .. _google's docstring format: https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html#38-comments-and-docstrings
 
 Handling Paths