ajs-submission
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) via Editorial Manager — the $30 submission fee (waived for sole-author grad students), the separate cover page for double-blind review, the ~150-word abstract, mandatory figure alt text, AJS house style, and the originality statement. Final checks; it does not draft content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajs-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 (ajs-submission) The last check before pressing submit on **Editorial Manager** (`editorialmanager.com/ucp-ajs`). AJS is **double-blind**, so the most common avoidable failures are an under-anonymized manuscript and a cover page left inside the manuscript file. Also unique to AJS: a **$30 submission fee** and **AJS's own house style** (not the ASA Style Guide). Verify volatile items on the live pages before submission. ## When to trigger - "Submitting tomorrow" — last pass before upload - Unsure which files/metadata Editorial Manager expects - Confirming the fee, anonymization, abstract, alt text, and house style are all handled ## Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page) - **Owner / publisher:** University of Chicago (Dept. of Sociology) / **University of Chicago Press** (NOT SAGE/ASA). - **Portal:** **Editorial Manager** (`editorialmanager.com/ucp-ajs`); accepts **Word, PDF, or LaTeX**. - **Review model:** **double-blind** — anonymize the manuscript; submit the **cover page as a separate file** so personal information is not in the manuscript. Reviewer and author identities are not disclosed to the other side, and **AJS avoids sending pape
- When to trigger
- Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page)
- Preflight checklist
- Fee & files
- Anonymity (double-blind)
- Content & format
- Avoidable-failure triage (what bounces a submission, and the fix)
- Calibration (AJS-specific posture, hedged)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the ajs-submission skill do?
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) via Editorial Manager — the $30 submission fee (waived for sole-author grad students), the separate cover page for double-blind review, the ~150-word abstract, mandatory figure alt text, AJS house style, and the originality statement. Final checks; it does not draft content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajs-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.