diff --git a/corsika/output/ParquetStreamer.hpp b/corsika/output/ParquetStreamer.hpp
index c2ac2b8f0676053129817bdcc3f586fbde01445e..25d8acf437dcbb9c1b577f0e256e2c5c70714546 100644
--- a/corsika/output/ParquetStreamer.hpp
+++ b/corsika/output/ParquetStreamer.hpp
@@ -11,12 +11,13 @@
 
 #include <string>
 
-// NOTE: the order of these includes is *important*
+// clang-format-off, NOTE: the order of these includes is *important*
 // you will get unhelpful compiler errors about unknown
 // operator definitions if these are reordered
 #include <parquet/stream_writer.h>
 #include <parquet/arrow/schema.h>
 #include <arrow/io/file.h>
+// clang-format-on
 
 namespace corsika {