devpsych-writing-style
Use when drafting or polishing a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript to fit its house style — APA 7th edition, JARS-compliant reporting, the manuscript length tier (brief report to multi-study/longitudinal report), the abstract, and the required Public Significance Statement. Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill devpsych-writing-style --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 (devpsych-writing-style) Writing well for Developmental Psychology means making a credible **developmental-change** argument in **APA 7th-edition** style, sized to the right **length tier**, with the journal's two distinctive front-matter elements done right: the **abstract** and the **Public Significance Statement**. The prose should foreground change (age, trajectory, mechanism), not just a finding measured in an age group. ## When to trigger - Drafting the Introduction/Discussion or doing final polish - Sizing the manuscript to the correct length tier - Writing the abstract and the Public Significance Statement - Aligning statistics reporting to JARS and citations to APA 7th edition ## Know the format (verify volatile numbers on the official page) - **Length tiers** *(检索于 2026-06；以官网为准)*: roughly **~4,500 words** for a brief report, **~10,500 words** for a larger research report, and **~15,000 words** for a multi-study or comprehensive longitudinal report; total length counts the cover page, abstract, text, references, tables, and figures. - **Abstract**: an APA-style abstract on the abstract/keywords page (confirm the current word ceiling). - **Public Significan
- When to trigger
- Know the format (verify volatile numbers on the official page)
- Writing to the format
- Worked micro-example — abstract + Public Significance Statement (illustrative)
- Length-tier allocation (illustrative)
- Prose-stage reviewer pushback and the venue fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the devpsych-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or polishing a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript to fit its house style — APA 7th edition, JARS-compliant reporting, the manuscript length tier (brief report to multi-study/longitudinal report), the abstract, and the required Public Significance Statement. Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill devpsych-writing-style --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.