diff --git a/rewrite-yaml/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/yaml/format/MinimumViableSpacingVisitor.java b/rewrite-yaml/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/yaml/format/MinimumViableSpacingVisitor.java
index e8b1f45214b..bb010ddfcf4 100644
--- a/rewrite-yaml/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/yaml/format/MinimumViableSpacingVisitor.java
+++ b/rewrite-yaml/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/yaml/format/MinimumViableSpacingVisitor.java
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ public class MinimumViableSpacingVisitor<P> extends YamlIsoVisitor<P> {
     public Yaml.Mapping.Entry visitMappingEntry(Yaml.Mapping.Entry entry, P p) {
         Yaml.Mapping.Entry e = super.visitMappingEntry(entry, p);
         if (!e.getPrefix().contains("\n")) {
-            if(getCursor().getParentOrThrow(2).getValue() instanceof Yaml.Document) {
+            if (getCursor().getParentOrThrow(2).getValue() instanceof Yaml.Document) {
                 Yaml.Mapping mapping = getCursor().getParentOrThrow().getValue();
-                if(mapping.getEntries().isEmpty() || mapping.getEntries().get(0) == e) {
+                if (mapping.getEntries().isEmpty() || mapping.getEntries().get(0) == e) {
                     return e;
                 }
             }
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ public Yaml.Mapping.Entry visitMappingEntry(Yaml.Mapping.Entry entry, P p) {
     @Override
     public Yaml.Sequence.Entry visitSequenceEntry(Yaml.Sequence.Entry entry, P p) {
         Yaml.Sequence.Entry e = super.visitSequenceEntry(entry, p);
-        if (!e.getPrefix().contains("\n")) {
+        if (!e.getPrefix().contains("\n") && e.isDash()) {
             return e.withPrefix("\n");
         }
         return e;
diff --git a/rewrite-yaml/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/yaml/format/MinimumViableSpacingVisitorTest.java b/rewrite-yaml/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/yaml/format/MinimumViableSpacingVisitorTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..83453ad628e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rewrite-yaml/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/yaml/format/MinimumViableSpacingVisitorTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2024 the original author or authors.
+ * <p>
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * <p>
+ * https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * <p>
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.openrewrite.yaml.format;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.openrewrite.ExecutionContext;
+import org.openrewrite.test.RecipeSpec;
+import org.openrewrite.test.RewriteTest;
+import org.openrewrite.yaml.YamlIsoVisitor;
+import org.openrewrite.yaml.tree.Yaml;
+
+import static org.openrewrite.test.RewriteTest.toRecipe;
+import static org.openrewrite.yaml.Assertions.yaml;
+
+class MinimumViableSpacingVisitorTest implements RewriteTest {
+    @Override
+    public void defaults(RecipeSpec spec) {
+        spec.recipe(
+          toRecipe(() -> new YamlIsoVisitor<>() {
+                @Override
+                public Yaml.Documents visitDocuments(Yaml.Documents documents, ExecutionContext ctx) {
+                    return new MinimumViableSpacingVisitor<>(null).visitDocuments(documents, ctx);
+                }
+            }
+          )
+        );
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void sameLineArrayNotChanged() {
+        rewriteRun(
+          yaml(
+            """
+              build:
+                existing: value
+                steps: [run: publish]
+              """
+          )
+        );
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void nextLineArrayNotChanged() {
+        rewriteRun(
+          yaml(
+            """
+              build:
+                existing: value
+                steps:
+                  - run: publish
+              """
+          )
+        );
+    }
+}