est-figures-and-tables
Use when building figures, tables, and the mandatory Table of Contents (TOC)/abstract graphic for an Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) manuscript. ES&T requires a TOC graphic for Research Articles, Reviews, Features, Perspectives, and Policy Analysis, and figures/tables may count toward the word limit, so every exhibit must earn its space. It designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill est-figures-and-tables --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.
# Figures, Tables & TOC Graphic (est-figures-and-tables) Exhibits are where an expert reviewer checks whether the result is real, and at ES&T they also carry two venue-specific rules: a **mandatory TOC/abstract graphic**, and a word budget in which **figures/tables may count as word-equivalents** (historically ~300 for small, ~600 for large — 待核实 on the live page). Every exhibit must pull its weight. ## When to trigger - Designing the main results figures/tables - Building the **TOC/abstract graphic** (required for most article types) - Deciding what belongs in the article vs. the Supporting Information - A reviewer found an exhibit unclear, mislabeled, or not self-contained ## Principles 1. **Self-contained.** Each exhibit is intelligible from its caption, axis/column labels, units, n, and notes alone — state the sample, conditions, and what the value is. 2. **Show uncertainty.** Error bars/intervals with the dispersion measure named; significance markers defined; never bars without spread. 3. **Accessible.** Colorblind-safe palettes, legible in grayscale, no chartjunk/3D; vector output (PDF/EPS) where possible for print. 4. **The TOC graphic.** A single clear **visual abstract**
- When to trigger
- Principles
- Environmental-science exhibits
- TOC graphic: required-by-type and what makes it pass
- Worked micro-example (illustrative — LCA of a treatment technology)
- Referee-pushback patterns and the venue-specific fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the est-figures-and-tables skill do?
Use when building figures, tables, and the mandatory Table of Contents (TOC)/abstract graphic for an Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) manuscript. ES&T requires a TOC graphic for Research Articles, Reviews, Features, Perspectives, and Policy Analysis, and figures/tables may count toward the word limit, so every exhibit must earn its space. It designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill est-figures-and-tables --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 984 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.