diff --git a/EIPS/eip-1014.md b/EIPS/eip-1014.md
index 5b667bfa..0aa0aaea 100644
--- a/EIPS/eip-1014.md
+++ b/EIPS/eip-1014.md
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ With [EIP 161](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-161)
 
 > Account creation transactions and the CREATE operation SHALL, prior to the execution of the initialisation code, increment the nonce over and above its normal starting value by one
 
-This means that if a contract is created in a transaction, the `nonce` is immediately non-zero, with the side-effect that a collision within the same transaction will always fail -- even if it's carried out from the `init_code` itself/ 
+This means that if a contract is created in a transaction, the `nonce` is immediately non-zero, with the side-effect that a collision within the same transaction will always fail -- even if it's carried out from the `init_code` itself.
 
 It should also be noted that `SELFDESTRUCT` has no immediate effect on `nonce` or `code`, thus a contract cannot be destroyed and recreated within one transaction.