epsl-writing-style
Use when drafting or compressing prose for an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript. The letters format demands a main text near the 6,500-word cap, a process-forward title and abstract, and prose legible to geochemists, geophysicists, and planetary scientists at once. It guides writing and cutting; it does not invent content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-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 (epsl-writing-style) EPSL prose has a recognizable gait: it opens on the process question, lands the decisive number early, and spends its limited words on interpretation rather than inventory. The house constraints are the **word cap on the main text** (about 6,500 words, introduction through conclusions — re-check the exact figure on the official site), an author–date reference style (re-check the current formatting instructions), and a readership that spans four sub-fields, so every specialist term costs you part of the audience. ## When to trigger - Drafting the title, abstract, or introduction - Cutting an over-length draft down to the letters cap - De-jargonizing prose for the cross-disciplinary readership - Deciding what moves from the main text to the supplement ## Structure & style EPSL expects 1. **Title names the process, not the place.** "Slab dehydration depth controls arc volatile flux" travels; "Geochemistry of lavas from the X arc, Country Y" announces a regional study — the desk-screen tell. 2. **Abstract = the whole Letter in miniature.** Question, approach, headline number with uncertainty and units, and the process-level consequence — a reader sh
- When to trigger
- Structure & style EPSL expects
- Where the word budget goes
- Worked micro-example (illustrative — compressing a regional opener)
- Referee-pushback patterns and the venue-specific fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the epsl-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or compressing prose for an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript. The letters format demands a main text near the 6,500-word cap, a process-forward title and abstract, and prose legible to geochemists, geophysicists, and planetary scientists at once. It guides writing and cutting; it does not invent content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-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.