ajps-submission
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) via Editorial Manager — submission-type selection, full anonymizing for double-blind review, word/abstract caps, APSA-or-Chicago formatting, the 25-page Supporting Information limit, and human-subjects/IRB documentation. Final checks; it does not draft content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajps-submission --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Submission Preflight (ajps-submission) The last check before pressing submit on **Editorial Manager** (`editorialmanager.com/ajps`). AJPS is **double-blind**, so the most common avoidable failure is an under-anonymized manuscript — and AJPS's anonymizing rules are strict (no acknowledgments, funding lines, or conference mentions, third-person self-citation). Official AJPS baseline checked 2026-06-20; live-check Editorial Manager prompts before upload. ## When to trigger - "Submitting tomorrow" — last pass before upload - Unsure which files/metadata Editorial Manager expects - Confirming the chosen type's cap is met and the manuscript is fully anonymized ## Process facts (official baseline checked 2026-06-20) - **Owner / publisher:** Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) / **Wiley**. - **Portal:** **Editorial Manager** (`http://www.editorialmanager.com/ajps/`). - **Review model:** **double-blind** — fully anonymize the manuscript. - **Types:** Article (<= 10,000 words), Research Note (<= 4,000 — methodology/meta-analysis only), Correspondence (<= 4,000 — critique of published AJPS work). - **Abstract:** **<= 150 words** (background, hypotheses, approach, findings, conclusio
- When to trigger
- Process facts (official baseline checked 2026-06-20)
- Preflight checklist
- Type & length
- Anonymity (double-blind)
- Files & format
- Compliance & reproducibility
- Desk-reject risk table (avoidable failures at AJPS)
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Editor-pushback patterns and the venue-specific fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the ajps-submission skill do?
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) via Editorial Manager — submission-type selection, full anonymizing for double-blind review, word/abstract caps, APSA-or-Chicago formatting, the 25-page Supporting Information limit, and human-subjects/IRB documentation. Final checks; it does not draft content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajps-submission --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.