jfe-writing-style

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfe-writing-style --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Writing Style (jfe-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The introduction hedges or buries the contribution - Claims outrun the evidence ("proves," "definitively shows") - Sentences are long, passive, and vague about who did what - The paper reads like a lab notebook rather than an argument - A referee might say "I cannot tell what the contribution is" ## The JFE register JFE prose is precise, restrained, and evidence-forward. Because JFE papers are technical and long, clarity is what keeps a referee on your side: every claim is calibrated to the evidence, magnitudes are stated, and the contribution is unmissable in the first page. Overclaiming is punished harder than modest framing. The famous JFE papers — **Jensen & Meckling (1976)** and **Fama & French (1993)** — are remembered partly because their central idea is stated plainly and early; write to that standard. Two hard format facts to write toward (verify on jfinec.com): the **abstract must be 100 words or fewer**, so it has to carry the question, design, headline result, and significance with zero padding; and the manuscript is **double-spaced, 12-pt+, author-date references**, which rewards short, declarative sentences over