ngeo-length-management
Use when a Nature Geoscience manuscript exceeds the ~3,000-word Article limit, the 4-6 display-item ceiling, or the reference cap, where content must be relocated to online Methods or Supplementary Information. Triages what to cut, compress, or move; does not rewrite content from scratch.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-length-management --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.
# Nature Geoscience Length Management (ngeo-length-management) ## When to trigger - The main text is over the ~3,000-word Article limit (or you suspect it is) - You have more than 4–6 display items or more than ~50 references - You must decide what to cut, compress, or push to online Methods / SI - A coauthor keeps adding regional detail and sensitivity tests - Late stage: content, figures, and SI are stable and now must fit the container ## How the Nature Geoscience length limits work An Article is **short and tightly bounded** (verify current values on the author pages): - **Main text**: up to ~3,000 words, *excluding* abstract, online Methods, references, and figure legends. - **Abstract**: up to ~200 words, unreferenced. - **Title**: up to ~90 characters. - **Display items**: 4–6 figures and/or tables combined. - **References**: typically up to ~50 in the main list. - **Brief Communication** (the short format): ~1,000–1,500 words, ≤2 display items, ≤20 references, ~70-word abstract. Unlike a deductible page budget, Nature counts these categories **separately**: text, display items, and references each have their own ceiling. The relief valves are the online **Methods** (exclude
- When to trigger
- How the Nature Geoscience length limits work
- Triage order (cut from cheapest loss to most painful)
- Cost-awareness table
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ngeo-length-management skill do?
Use when a Nature Geoscience manuscript exceeds the ~3,000-word Article limit, the 4-6 display-item ceiling, or the reference cap, where content must be relocated to online Methods or Supplementary Information. Triages what to cut, compress, or move; does not rewrite content from scratch.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-length-management --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.