jaar-citation-and-style
Use when formatting citations and references for a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article. JAAR's distinctive rule is IN-TEXT author-date citations (NOT footnote citations) with an alphabetized year-keyed reference list; footnotes are reserved for substantive points. Handles reference apparatus; it does not write the argument.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jaar-citation-and-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.
# Citation & Style (jaar-citation-and-style) JAAR has a citation style that trips up authors coming from history or theology: **citations go in-text (author-date), not in footnotes.** Footnotes are for substantive remarks only. Getting this wrong signals you have not read the style sheet — fix it before submitting. ## When to trigger - Converting a footnote-cited draft to JAAR's in-text style - Building the reference list and checking entry forms - Handling primary-source citations, translations, and transliteration in references - Final style pass before submission ## JAAR's citation rules (verify current style sheet) 1. **In-text author-date citations.** Cite as `(Wolf 1996: 33)` or in prose `Clarkson notes … (1995: 45–46)`. Do **not** put bibliographic citations in footnotes. 2. **Footnotes for substance only.** Use notes for points outside the body of the argument, not to cite sources. Keep them lean (they count toward the word budget). 3. **Reference list.** An **alphabetized, year-keyed** list of works cited; format each entry per the JAAR style sheet. 4. **House conventions.** Serial (Oxford) comma; gender-neutral language; **italicize foreign words**; a consistent translite
- When to trigger
- JAAR's citation rules (verify current style sheet)
- Primary sources, translations, transliteration
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Conversion table: history/theology habits → JAAR house style
- Worked vignette: de-noting a textual-historical draft
- Referee and copyedit pushback → the fix
- Supplementary resources
What does the jaar-citation-and-style skill do?
Use when formatting citations and references for a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article. JAAR's distinctive rule is IN-TEXT author-date citations (NOT footnote citations) with an alphabetized year-keyed reference list; footnotes are reserved for substantive points. Handles reference apparatus; it does not write the argument.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jaar-citation-and-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 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.