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@@ -101,6 +101,15 @@ mvn -Penable-samples clean verify
 2. [Activate](#profile-activation) the profile.
 3. Define your samples in a normal Maven project in the `samples/` directory
 
+### Code Formatting
+
+Code in this repo is formatted with [google-java-format]
+(https://github.com/google/google-java-format).
+To run formatting on your project, you can run:
+```
+mvn com.coveo:fmt-maven-plugin:format
+```
+
 ### Profile Activation
 
 To include code samples when building and testing the project, enable the