imfer-writing-style
Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript's prose must land for its dual academic/policy audience — a tight intro, an italicized abstract with JEL codes, Chicago style, and a clear policy "so what." Sharpens the writing; it does not build the exhibits (imfer-tables-figures) or run the submission preflight (imfer-submission).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imfer-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 (imfer-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The introduction buries the result and the policy implication under a long literature tour - The abstract reads like a methods note and a policy reader cannot extract the takeaway - The paper is rigorous but a mission economist could not tell what to *do* with it - You are unsure of IMFER house conventions (italicized abstract, JEL codes, Chicago style, American spelling) - The prose drifts toward JIE-style technical density with no policy register - Country names, acronyms, and currency conventions are used inconsistently across the paper ## Writing for IMFER's two readers Every IMFER paper is read by a frontier referee *and* a policy reader. The prose must satisfy both without talking down to either: the **academic claim** must be precise and the **policy "so what"** must be explicit and early. The house conventions reinforce a clean, readable register — the abstract is **italicized** and followed by **JEL codes**, style follows the **Chicago Manual of Style** with **American spelling**, and author biographies (≤80 words each) and contact details go in a **separate file** for double-blind review (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Write
- When to trigger
- Writing for IMFER's two readers
- The introduction (IMFER recipe)
- The abstract
- Register
- Writing the policy "so what" without overreaching
- Checklist
- The one-paragraph contribution test
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the writing fix
- Output format
What does the imfer-writing-style skill do?
Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript's prose must land for its dual academic/policy audience — a tight intro, an italicized abstract with JEL codes, Chicago style, and a clear policy "so what." Sharpens the writing; it does not build the exhibits (imfer-tables-figures) or run the submission preflight (imfer-submission).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imfer-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.