jacs-writing-style
Use when polishing prose to ACS house style and claim discipline for a Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) manuscript. Edits language, structure, and nomenclature — it does not add data or design figures.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jacs-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.
# ACS House Style and Claim Discipline (jacs-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The data and figures are solid and the manuscript needs language polish - Prose is wordy, over-claimed, or uses vague boosters ("novel", "very important") - Nomenclature, units, or abbreviations are inconsistent - Citation style is not ACS-numbered ## ACS prose conventions - **Concise and declarative.** State what was done and found; avoid padding and throat-clearing. - **Tense/voice.** Past tense for what you did and observed; present for established facts. Active voice is acceptable and encouraged in ACS writing where it improves clarity. - **Compound numbering.** Bold numerals (e.g., **3a**); the same number always means the same structure across text, schemes, and SI. - **Nomenclature.** Correct IUPAC/ACS names or clearly defined trivial names; consistent throughout. - **Units and symbols.** SI units, italic variables (e.g., *J*, *T*, *k*), roman unit symbols; spaces between number and unit (5 mol %, 80 °C). - **Abbreviations.** Define at first use; use standard ACS abbreviations for reagents/solvents. - **Citations.** ACS numbered style (superscript), references in citation order; abbreviated jour
- When to trigger
- ACS prose conventions
- Section discipline
- Claim discipline (what JACS referees punish)
- Booster blacklist (replace with a number or a fact)
- Worked micro-edits (before → after, JACS register)
- Chemistry typography that referees notice
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Related resources
What does the jacs-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing prose to ACS house style and claim discipline for a Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) manuscript. Edits language, structure, and nomenclature — it does not add data or design figures.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jacs-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.