jaar-submission
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) via ScholarOne / Manuscript Central — anonymized main document plus separate title page, the broad-significance framing, length and abstract limits, in-text citation style, and house conventions. Final checks; it does not draft content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jaar-submission --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.
# Submission Preflight (jaar-submission) The last check before submitting through **ScholarOne / Manuscript Central** (`mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaarel`). The two most common avoidable failures at JAAR are a **subfield-only framing** (returned before review) and an **under-anonymized** document (it is double-blind). Verify volatile specifics on the official page first. ## When to trigger - "Submitting tomorrow" — last pass before upload - Unsure which files Manuscript Central expects (anonymized main document + title page) - Confirming framing, length, abstract, citation style, and anonymity are in order ## Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page) - **Owner / publisher:** American Academy of Religion (AAR) / Oxford University Press. - **Portal:** **ScholarOne / Manuscript Central**, `mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaarel`. Upload uses a **Main Document (anonymous)** designation plus a separate **Title Page** (and Figure/Table/ Supplementary as needed). - **Review:** **double-blind (double-anonymous).** Average time to a **first decision ≈ 106 days** (as of 2022); a final decision can take **up to ~6 months**. **Rejection rate ≈ 90%** (~8 articles per issue, ~32/year) —
- When to trigger
- Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page)
- Preflight checklist
- Framing & fit
- Length & abstract
- Anonymity (double-blind)
- Style & files
- Ethics
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Desk-return ledger: why JAAR submissions bounce before review
- Worked vignette: a clean preflight on a comparative essay
- Supplementary resources
What does the jaar-submission skill do?
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) via ScholarOne / Manuscript Central — anonymized main document plus separate title page, the broad-significance framing, length and abstract limits, in-text citation style, and house conventions. Final checks; it does not draft content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jaar-submission --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.