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@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ methods from the following papers:
   Shapley Values](https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412511). In 25th
   International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020), 7992–99. IEEE,
   2021.
-- Yan, T., & Procaccia, A. D. [If You Like Shapley Then You’ll Love the
+- Yan, T., and Procaccia, A. D. [If You Like Shapley Then You’ll Love the
   Core](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/16721). Proceedings of
   the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 35(6) (2021): 5751-5759.
 - Jia, Ruoxi, David Dao, Boxin Wang, Frances Ann Hubis, Nick Hynes, Nezihe Merve