jfqa-writing-style
Use when applying the house writing style for a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript — precise quantitative finance prose, the strict ≤100-word one-paragraph abstract, and the prescriptive 8.5x11 / 1-inch / 12-pt Times New Roman double-spaced layout submitted as a text-searchable PDF. Use to polish a draft to JFQA conventions before submission.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfqa-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.
# JFQA Writing Style (jfqa-writing-style) Use this skill to bring a **JFQA** draft up to house style. JFQA is a quantitative finance journal; the prose should be precise, economical, and result-forward. ## Voice and structure - Write for a **finance audience** — assume fluency in asset pricing and corporate finance, but state the economic intuition behind every result. - Lead each section with its point; report **economic magnitudes** in plain finance units (bps, monthly alpha, percentage of a SD). - Avoid over-claiming: conclusions must not exceed what the design supports. - Keep the paper from drifting over-long — JFQA discourages excessive length and may desk-reject it. ## The abstract and formatting (JFQA-specific, enforced) - **Abstract**: one paragraph, **no more than 100 words** (see jfqa-contribution-framing). This is a hard cap; trim ruthlessly. - **Layout**: 8.5 × 11 paper, **1-inch margins**, **12-pt Times New Roman**, **double-spaced** body and appendices. - Submit a single **text-searchable PDF** (not image-only). - **Anonymize** for double-anonymous review: remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, and identifying self-references; scrub PDF metadata. - No sp
- Voice and structure
- The abstract and formatting (JFQA-specific, enforced)
- Anti-patterns
- Sentence-level repair rules
- Length and section calibration for a JFQA draft
- Consistency sweep before the PDF freezes
- Output format
What does the jfqa-writing-style skill do?
Use when applying the house writing style for a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript — precise quantitative finance prose, the strict ≤100-word one-paragraph abstract, and the prescriptive 8.5x11 / 1-inch / 12-pt Times New Roman double-spaced layout submitted as a text-searchable PDF. Use to polish a draft to JFQA conventions before submission.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfqa-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.