jibs-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) manuscript — a phenomenon-forward narrative, an explicit IB contribution, disciplined cross-cultural terminology, the inclusive word budget, and JIBS Style Guide conventions (11-pt Times New Roman, double-spaced, author-date). Polishes language; it does not fix a thin contribution (jibs-contribution-framing) or weak analysis (jibs-data-analysis).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jibs-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 in JIBS House Style (jibs-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The argument is settled and the manuscript needs a full prose pass - Prose buries the phenomenon, the IB contribution, or the cross-level logic - Terminology about countries/cultures is loose or risks essentializing - You are over the inclusive word limit and must cut without losing the argument ## Lead with the phenomenon, deliver the IB contribution JIBS is phenomenon-driven. Open by anchoring the reader in a concrete cross-border problem, then state — early and explicitly — what the paper contributes to **IB theory**. The reader should know within the first page why this is an *international*-business question that no single-country study could answer. Mirror that contribution statement in the discussion (promised vs. delivered). ## Respect the inclusive word budget The JIBS article word count includes abstract, text, endnotes, and references; tables, figures, and online supplemental appendices can follow. Target ~10,000 words for a strong/broad contribution or ~7,000 for a narrower one; Research Notes should be 4,000-6,000 words including everything in the manuscript. Write tight: every method nuance not es
- When to trigger
- Lead with the phenomenon, deliver the IB contribution
- Respect the inclusive word budget
- Discipline cross-cultural language
- JIBS Style Guide conventions
- Style execution pass for Journal of International Business Studies
- Output format
- Anti-patterns
What does the jibs-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing the prose of a Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) manuscript — a phenomenon-forward narrative, an explicit IB contribution, disciplined cross-cultural terminology, the inclusive word budget, and JIBS Style Guide conventions (11-pt Times New Roman, double-spaced, author-date). Polishes language; it does not fix a thin contribution (jibs-contribution-framing) or weak analysis (jibs-data-analysis).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jibs-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.