diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Contributing to Sbt Reproducible Builds
+
+## Applying code style to the project
+
+The project uses both [scalafix](https://scalacenter.github.io/scalafix/) and
+[scalafmt](https://scalameta.org/scalafmt/) to ensure code quality which is automatically checked on every
+PR. If you would like to check for any potential code style problems locally you can run `sbt checkCodeStyle` and if
+you want to apply the code style then you can run `sbt applyCodeStyle`.
+
+## Ignoring formatting commits in git blame
+
+Throughout the history of the codebase various formatting commits have been applied as the scalafmt style has evolved over time, if desired
+one can setup git blame to ignore these commits. The hashes for these specific are stored in [this file](.git-blame-ignore-revs) so to configure
+git blame to ignore these commits you can execute the following.
+
+```shell
+git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
+```
diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index f8b1a86..84798cc 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -54,3 +54,6 @@ inThisBuild(
     )
   )
 )
+
+addCommandAlias("applyCodeStyle", ";+clean ;scalafixAll ;scalafmtAll; scalafmtSbt")
+addCommandAlias("checkCodeStyle", ";+clean ;scalafixAll --check ;scalafmtCheckAll; scalafmtSbtCheck")