diff --git a/docs/pages/contributing.rst b/docs/pages/contributing.rst
index 91a8db11e..7a661a306 100644
--- a/docs/pages/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/pages/contributing.rst
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-.. mdinclude:: ../../CONTRIBUTING.md
-
+.. include:: ../../CONTRIBUTING.md
+   :parser: myst_parser.sphinx_