rfs-tables-figures
Use when main-paper exhibits are the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript — table layout, standard-error reporting, and publication-grade figures. Finalizes exhibits; does NOT decide robustness content or move material to the appendix.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rfs-tables-figures --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.
# Tables & Figures (rfs-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - The main table has too many columns or unlabeled specifications - Standard errors, significance stars, or clustering are unclear or inconsistent - A figure is a default software plot rather than a publication-grade exhibit - A reader cannot tell from a table alone what the regression is ## What an RFS exhibit must do Every main table or figure should be **self-contained**: a referee skimming exhibits should grasp the design, the result, and the inference without the text. RFS articles are typeset by **Oxford University Press** for the SFS, so build exhibits to OUP production specs (vector figures, clean two-column-friendly tables). One RFS-specific constraint shapes every exhibit: because RFS requires **public release of all code** as a condition of publication, each table and figure must be **regenerable by the released scripts** — a number a referee cannot reproduce from your code is a liability. The portfolio-sort and spanning exhibits in Hou, Xue, and Zhang (2015) "Digesting Anomalies" (RFS 28(3)) are a good template for decile monotonicity and long–short t-stats. ### Table conventions - **One question per table.** A
- When to trigger
- What an RFS exhibit must do
- Table conventions
- Figure conventions
- Reporting conventions that signal craft to finance referees
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the rfs-tables-figures skill do?
Use when main-paper exhibits are the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript — table layout, standard-error reporting, and publication-grade figures. Finalizes exhibits; does NOT decide robustness content or move material to the appendix.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rfs-tables-figures --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.