diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1d30f30e..714643c9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "nomenclature-iamc"
-authors = { name = "Scenario Services team, ECE program, IIASA" }
+authors = [{ name = "Scenario Services team, ECE program, IIASA" }]
 version = "0.0.0"
 description = "Package for managing codelists & attributes for IAMC-format datasets"
 license = "APACHE-2.0"