psci-submission
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for Psychological Science via Manuscript Central — word-format compliance, the 150-word structured abstract, APA 7th-edition style, anonymization, the Research Transparency Statement, and open data/materials with DOIs. Final checks; it does not draft content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psci-submission --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.
# Submission Preflight (psci-submission) The last check before submitting through **Manuscript Central** (`mc.manuscriptcentral.com/psci`). Two things sink Psychological Science submissions most often: **busting the word format** and **missing open-science compliance**. Verify volatile specifics (format numbers, policy wording, editor) on the official page first. ## When to trigger - "Submitting tomorrow" — last pass before upload - Unsure what the format and open-science requirements demand - Confirming the abstract, anonymization, Transparency Statement, and deposits are in order ## Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page) - **Owner / publisher:** Association for Psychological Science (APS) / SAGE. - **Portal:** **Manuscript Central**, `mc.manuscriptcentral.com/psci`. - **Review:** anonymized — keep author identity out of the manuscript and repository links. - **Word format (Research Article):** **Introduction + Discussion + Footnotes + Acknowledgments + Appendices ≤ 2,000 words combined**; **Method + Results excluded** (typically ≤ ~2,500); ~**40 references**. - **Abstract:** **150 words**, stating **sample sizes, participant populations, and design limitations
- When to trigger
- Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page)
- Preflight checklist
- Format & abstract
- Anonymization (for review)
- Open science
- Stats & disclosure
- Worked micro-example — preflight verdict (illustrative)
- Last-mile failure modes that trigger a return
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the psci-submission skill do?
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for Psychological Science via Manuscript Central — word-format compliance, the 150-word structured abstract, APA 7th-edition style, anonymization, the Research Transparency Statement, and open data/materials with DOIs. Final checks; it does not draft content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psci-submission --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.