misq-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a MIS Quarterly manuscript — front-loading the IS contribution, writing for an interdisciplinary IS audience that spans four traditions, applying APA 7th / MISQ Style Guide conventions (including MISQ's lead-with-the-information in-text citation style, heading format, and 5–10 keywords), and keeping the manuscript inside its page limit. Late-stage polish; do not invoke while the contribution is unsettled.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill misq-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 (misq-writing-style) ## When to trigger - Prose is jargon-heavy, passive, or buries the IS contribution - Citations/headings do not match APA 7th or the MISQ Style Guide - The manuscript exceeds the category page limit - You are finalizing the first page (title, abstract, keywords) ## Write for an interdisciplinary IS audience MISQ readers come from all four traditions — behavioral, design science, economics, and organizational. A behavioral reader may not share an econometrician's vocabulary, and vice versa. Define tradition-specific terms on first use, state the IT artifact and the contribution in plain language up front, and avoid in-group jargon that only one subfield will parse. Front-load the argument: by the end of the introduction the reader should know the IS phenomenon, the artifact's role, the approach, and the contribution. ## Apply the MISQ Style Guide and APA 7th - **Citations/references:** APA 7th edition. Note the MISQ convention that **in-text citations lead with the cited information, not the author name** — e.g., "... the best team in the nation (Smith & Jones, 1997)" rather than "Smith and Jones (1997) found...". Reconcile your reference manager'
- When to trigger
- Write for an interdisciplinary IS audience
- Apply the MISQ Style Guide and APA 7th
- Respect the page limit while editing
- Keep anonymity in the prose
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Style execution pass for MIS Quarterly
- Output format
What does the misq-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing the prose of a MIS Quarterly manuscript — front-loading the IS contribution, writing for an interdisciplinary IS audience that spans four traditions, applying APA 7th / MISQ Style Guide conventions (including MISQ's lead-with-the-information in-text citation style, heading format, and 5–10 keywords), and keeping the manuscript inside its page limit. Late-stage polish; do not invoke while the contribution is unsettled.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill misq-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.