joap-tables-figures

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill joap-tables-figures --agent claude-code

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

# Tables & Figures (joap-tables-figures) In JAP, exhibits do a lot of the evidentiary work: the **means-SD-correlation-reliability table**, the **path/CFA diagram**, the **multilevel result table**, and (for syntheses) the **forest/funnel plot**. They follow **APA 7th-edition** conventions and must be **self-contained** and consistent with the reported analysis. Good exhibits show **effect sizes, confidence intervals, and reliabilities**, not just stars. ## When to trigger - Designing the descriptives/correlation table or the main results exhibit - Drawing a CFA/SEM path diagram or a multilevel result table - Building a meta-analytic forest/funnel plot - A reviewer found an exhibit unclear, non-APA, or inconsistent with the text ## Principles 1. **The Table 1 standard.** The first table is almost always means, SDs, and the full correlation matrix with **reliabilities on the diagonal** and level-of-analysis noted. Reviewers scan it for construct distinctness, multicollinearity, and red flags before reading the model. 2. **Show estimates with uncertainty.** Path tables and figures report standardized/unstandardized coefficients **with confidence intervals** (and fit indices for SEM);