jbf-writing-style
Use when polishing Journal of Banking & Finance prose, structure, abstracts, introductions, variable definitions, result paragraphs, and Elsevier numbered-reference readiness for a concise finance-journal manuscript.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jbf-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 (jbf-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The manuscript is technically complete but reads slowly - Results paragraphs describe coefficients without interpretation - References, keywords, highlights, or declarations need Elsevier/JBF polish ## Style principles - **Lead with the finance question** before the method. - **State the design plainly**: what variation, what unit, what controls, and why it is credible. - **Translate coefficients into economics**: basis points, assets, loan spreads, capital ratios, abnormal returns, default probabilities. - **Use active, compact prose**. Avoid "it is worth noting" and long literature throat-clearing. - **Keep claims bounded** to the design and sample. ## Results paragraph pattern ```text Table X tests [claim]. Column (Y) includes [fixed effects/controls] and clusters standard errors by [level]. A one-standard-deviation increase in [treatment] is associated with [magnitude] change in [outcome], equal to [economic benchmark]. The estimate is robust to [key check], supporting [mechanism]. ``` ## Elsevier/JBF submission style notes - First submission has no strict reference-format requirement if references are complete and consis
- When to trigger
- Style principles
- Results paragraph pattern
- Elsevier/JBF submission style notes
- Common fixes
- Abstract calibration for JBF
- Worked rewrite (illustrative)
- Banking terminology hygiene
- Introduction pacing for JBF
- Prose pushbacks JBF referees make
- Finance-result sentence
- Output format
What does the jbf-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing Journal of Banking & Finance prose, structure, abstracts, introductions, variable definitions, result paragraphs, and Elsevier numbered-reference readiness for a concise finance-journal manuscript.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jbf-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.