jae-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — economics-paper conventions (precise, hypothesis-driven, restrained), Elsevier author-date (Harvard) referencing, numbered sections, and the mandatory Highlights/keywords/JEL packaging — so the writing matches the positive-accounting tradition.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jae-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 for JAE (jae-writing-style) ## When to trigger - Prose is verbose, hedged, or buries the prediction and result - The intro does not state the economic question, prediction, and finding early - References are not in Elsevier author-date (Harvard) style - Highlights, keywords, or JEL codes are missing or off-spec ## Write like an economics paper, not an essay JAE prose follows the **economics/positive-accounting** register: precise, restrained, and hypothesis-driven. The introduction should, within the first pages, state the **research question, the economic friction, the prediction, the identification, the data, and the headline result** — reviewers should know what you find before the methods section. Use the present tense for established results and active, direct sentences. Avoid normative language ("firms should"), promotional adjectives, and behavioral speculation; let the economic argument and evidence carry the paper. ## Structure and sections Use **numbered sections** (1. Introduction, 2. Background/Hypotheses, 3. Data and research design, 4. Results, 5. Robustness, 6. Conclusion) with numbered subsections (1.1, 1.1.1). Each hypothesis stated in the developme
- When to trigger
- Write like an economics paper, not an essay
- Structure and sections
- Elsevier referencing and packaging
- Precision over hedging
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Style execution pass for Journal of Accounting and Economics
- Output format
What does the jae-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing the prose of a Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE) manuscript — economics-paper conventions (precise, hypothesis-driven, restrained), Elsevier author-date (Harvard) referencing, numbered sections, and the mandatory Highlights/keywords/JEL packaging — so the writing matches the positive-accounting tradition.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jae-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.