rfs-writing-style
Use as a late-stage polish when prose, contribution framing, or the abstract/introduction is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript. Sharpens exposition; does NOT change the empirics, identification, or results.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rfs-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 & Contribution Framing (rfs-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The abstract or introduction buries what is new - Prose is dense, over-hedged, or jargon-heavy - The contribution is implied but never stated as a crisp claim - The paper is technically done and needs a final exposition pass > Run this only after identification, robustness, and exhibits hold up. Do not polish prose around an unsettled result. ## How RFS papers read The best RFS papers make the **new question and the answer legible in the first two pages**. An RFS Editor desk-screens before referees, so the contribution must land before page three or risk a desk reject. RFS welcomes theory + empirics, so the prose must integrate them, not present a model and then an unrelated regression — Brunnermeier and Pedersen (2009, RFS 22(6)) is a model of a tight theory→prediction→evidence arc. Two hard RFS house-style rules bind the writing: the **abstract must be ≤ 100 words** (RFS returns longer abstracts), and references follow **Chicago Manual of Style author-date** format. A long, literature-first abstract is both off-house-style and over the word limit. ### The introduction formula (RFS-style) 1. **Hook**: the fi
- When to trigger
- How RFS papers read
- The introduction formula (RFS-style)
- Abstract
- Prose discipline
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the rfs-writing-style skill do?
Use as a late-stage polish when prose, contribution framing, or the abstract/introduction is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript. Sharpens exposition; does NOT change the empirics, identification, or results.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rfs-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.