diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6f8ebf9cdd30f607dd84e6cf48f1182614d49560..864cbd992fc9286b57c649b672cff62e849f41f6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ The NFDI4Earth incubator allowed us to improve the API in three ways:
   programmatic way following current practice in data science. It will also allow the
   users to run larger batches of tasks in a reproducible way.
 
-The code is released as open source software under the MIT license on GitHub
+The code is released as open source software under the MIT license on GitHub:
 
 <https://github.com/ISI-MIP/isimip-files-api>
 
diff --git a/lhb-article.md b/lhb-article.md
index b3986ea8014a13d424d78120f256cb30df7c0bc7..ed9b23e5dde9bacc594242987d07afa4e7c273a0 100644
--- a/lhb-article.md
+++ b/lhb-article.md
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ The NFDI4Earth incubator allowed us to improve the API in three ways:
   programmatic way following current practice in data science. It will also allow the
   users to run larger batches of tasks in a reproducible way.
 
-The code is released as open source software under the MIT license on GitHub
+The code is released as open source software under the MIT license on GitHub:
 
 <https://github.com/ISI-MIP/isimip-files-api>