est-cover-letter
Use when writing the cover letter and editor-facing metadata for an Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) submission. ES&T editors desk-screen heavily, so the cover letter must make the environmental significance and fit obvious, name the article type, and supply suggested reviewers. It drafts the letter and metadata; it does not contact editors.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill est-cover-letter --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.
# Cover Letter & Editor Pitch (est-cover-letter) A significant fraction of ES&T submissions are declined by an editor without external review. The cover letter is your one shot to make the **environmental significance** and **fit** unmissable before the manuscript is even opened. ES&T also asks authors to **suggest qualified, non-conflicted reviewers**. ## When to trigger - Writing the cover letter for a new submission - Preparing suggested-reviewer and conflict-of-interest information - Justifying the chosen article type (or why ES&T over ES&T Letters / a specialist journal) - Re-pitching after a transfer or a desk decline elsewhere ## What the cover letter must do 1. **Lead with significance and novelty.** In 2–3 sentences: the environmental problem, what is new, and why it is direction-setting for the ES&T audience — not a methods recap. 2. **Name the article type.** Research Article / Critical Review / Feature / Perspective / Policy Analysis, and confirm it fits the caps. 3. **Assert fit and scope.** Tie the work explicitly to ES&T's scope (fate/transport, treatment, tox/health, biogeochem, sustainability, policy interface). 4. **State integrity basics.** Original, not under co
- When to trigger
- What the cover letter must do
- Suggested-reviewer checklist
- What the desk editor is screening for (and how the letter answers it)
- Worked micro-example (illustrative — a PFAS occurrence-and-fate study)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the est-cover-letter skill do?
Use when writing the cover letter and editor-facing metadata for an Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) submission. ES&T editors desk-screen heavily, so the cover letter must make the environmental significance and fit obvious, name the article type, and supply suggested reviewers. It drafts the letter and metadata; it does not contact editors.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill est-cover-letter --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.