artbull-writing-style-and-citation
Use when polishing prose and formatting citations for an Art Bulletin article to The Chicago Manual of Style — endnotes (not author-date), full credit-line captions, and consistent CAA-style formatting. Art-historical writing must be precise about objects and rigorous in its notes. Handles style and citation; it does not do the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill artbull-writing-style-and-citation --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.
# Writing Style & Citation (artbull-writing-style-and-citation) The Art Bulletin follows **The Chicago Manual of Style**, using **endnotes (not footnotes)** for the scholarly apparatus, per the CAA Publications Style Guide. The prose must be precise about objects and arguments, and the notes and captions must be flawlessly consistent. (Verify the current Chicago edition — the Style Guide states the 17th; an older page referenced the 16th. See 待核实.) ## When to trigger - Final stylistic polish before submission - Converting citations to Chicago **notes** form (endnotes) - Formatting captions and credit lines - A reviewer or editor flagged inconsistent or non-Chicago citations ## Style & citation norms 1. **Chicago notes, as endnotes.** Numbered consecutively, superscript after punctuation; full citation at first mention, short form thereafter (CMOS **chapter 14**). Not author-date. 2. **Precise art-historical prose.** Name media, techniques, and conventions correctly; describe works exactly; avoid vague evaluative adjectives that stand in for analysis. 3. **Captions and credit lines.** Artist, *italicized title*, date, medium, dimensions (inches then centimeters), collection and loca
- When to trigger
- Style & citation norms
- Anti-patterns
- Chicago-and-caption conformance table for the CAA quarterly
- Worked vignette: copyediting a passage to house style
- Style objections an editor flags, and the house-style fix
- Calibration anchor (hedge where uncertain)
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the artbull-writing-style-and-citation skill do?
Use when polishing prose and formatting citations for an Art Bulletin article to The Chicago Manual of Style — endnotes (not author-date), full credit-line captions, and consistent CAA-style formatting. Art-historical writing must be precise about objects and rigorous in its notes. Handles style and citation; it does not do the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill artbull-writing-style-and-citation --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.