A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript so it reads for a broad, international political-science audience, follows Cambridge's…

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Install Bjps Writing Style

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill bjps-writing-style -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills bjps-writing-style --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/British-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/bjps-writing-style .claude/skills/bjps-writing-style && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
bjps-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
565 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript so it reads for a broad, international political-science audience, follows Cambridge's…

  • Works in 5 steps: Front-load the contribution. By the end… → Don't assume the country context. A… → Minimize subfield jargon or define it on… → …
  • Polishing a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript so it reads for a broad
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Reach the broad, international…, Format to Cambridge house style and Fit the word cap (Research…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Bjps Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript so it reads for a broad, international political-science audience, follows Cambridge's house (Harvard author-date) style, and fits the word caps (Research Articles ~10,000 words; Letters ~4,000; abstract <= 150 words). Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Polishing a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript so it reads for a broad
  • International political-science audience
  • Follows Cambridges house (Harvard author-date) style
  • Fits the word caps (Research Articles ~10

Example prompts

  • “/bjps-writing-style”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Front-load the contribution. By the end of the introduction the reader knows the question, the
  2. Don't assume the country context. A reader unfamiliar with your case should follow the paper;
  3. Minimize subfield jargon or define it on first use; an IR reader should follow a behaviour paper.
  4. Argument-first prose. Lead with claims; use evidence to support them. Avoid "the data show…"
  5. Signpost. Clear section structure so a reader can navigate the argument.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Bjps Writing Style loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 95 tokens; SKILL.md has 565 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~95
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 565 words, ~1,232 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/bjps-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
bjps-writing-style
description
Use when drafting or polishing a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript so it reads for a broad, international political-science audience, follows Cambridge's house (Harvard author-date) style, and fits the word caps (Research Articles ~10,000 words; Letters ~4,000; abstract <= 150 words). Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.

Writing Style (bjps-writing-style)

A BJPS paper must be readable by a political scientist outside its subfield and outside its country of study, formatted to Cambridge's house style (Harvard author-date referencing), and disciplined to the word cap. This skill is about reaching a broad, international readership and respecting the format — not about generating claims.

When to trigger

  • Drafting the introduction, framing the contribution, or final polish
  • Over the word cap and needing to cut without losing the argument
  • Writing the ≤ 150-word abstract
  • Aligning citations/headings/format to Cambridge's house style before submission

Reach the broad, international reader

  1. Front-load the contribution. By the end of the introduction the reader knows the question, the argument, the evidence, and why it matters to political science broadly. Don't make a generalist dig for the "so what."
  2. Don't assume the country context. A reader unfamiliar with your case should follow the paper; gloss country-specific institutions and acronyms on first use.
  3. Minimize subfield jargon or define it on first use; an IR reader should follow a behaviour paper.
  4. Argument-first prose. Lead with claims; use evidence to support them. Avoid "the data show…" without saying what they show and why it matters.
  5. Signpost. Clear section structure so a reader can navigate the argument.

Format to Cambridge house style

  • Citations: Harvard author-date in text (e.g., (Elster 1983, 174)); reference list with the Cambridge format (Elster J (1983) Explaining Technical Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.). Keep one consistent style (manage with Zotero/BibTeX). References excluded from the word count.
  • Manuscript prep: double spacing, ≥ 12-point type, generous margins; accepted in MS Word or LaTeX (待核实 current specifics).
  • Anonymize: BJPS is double-blind — no author names/affiliations/acknowledgments or funding notes in the manuscript, no obvious self-references ("as we showed in…"), strip identifying file metadata, and prepare a separate title page.
  • Abstract: ≤ 150 words, stating question, approach, and finding.

Fit the word cap (Research Article ~10,000; Letter ~4,000; caps 待核实)

  • Move balance tables, full specs, and extended robustness to the online appendix.
  • Cut throat-clearing and literature dumps; engage the debate, not every paper (see bjps-literature-positioning).
  • Tighten footnotes — keep them substantive.
  • Prefer one decisive figure to three redundant tables.
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Anti-patterns

  • A subfield- or country-insider intro that never states wide significance
  • Burying the contribution in the middle of the paper
  • An abstract over 150 words or one that hides the finding
  • Mixed citation styles; acknowledgments or self-references that break anonymity
  • Padding a Letter toward Article length

Output format

【Contribution stated by end of intro?】[Y/N]
【Reads past subfield + country?】jargon/institutions glossed? [Y/N]
【Abstract】word count (≤150)
【Word count】Article ~10,000 / Letter ~4,000?
【Harvard author-date + anonymized】[Y/N]
【Next】bjps-transparency-and-data

Writing for two readers at once (BJPS-specific)

Every paragraph in the introduction has two readers: the specialist who knows the frontier, and the generalist from another subfield or country who must be told why it matters. Satisfy both — name the frontier and the broad stake. A common failure is writing only for the specialist (the paper reads as parochial) or only for the generalist (the paper reads as thin). The fix is the wide-interest sentence early, followed by the precise contribution against the literature.

Calibration anchors (hedged)

  • BJPS is international: do not assume the reader knows your country's institutions, parties, or acronyms — gloss them on first use without padding the word count.
  • House style is Harvard author-date, not APSA or Chicago-generic; keep one consistent style, and remember references are excluded from the word count while footnotes and exhibits are not (待核实 exact counting rule on the live page).

Supplementary resources

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in British-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/bjps-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Bjps Writing Style

What does Bjps Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript so it reads for a broad, international political-science audience, follows Cambridge's…. Bjps Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript so it reads for a broad, international political-science audience, follows Cambridge's house (Harvard author-date) style, and fits the word caps (Research Articles ~10,000 words; Letters ~4,000; abstract <= 150 words).

When should I use Bjps Writing Style?

Bjps Writing Style fits situations like: polishing a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript so it reads for a broad; international political-science audience; follows Cambridges house (Harvard author-date) style; fits the word caps (Research Articles ~10.

How do I install Bjps Writing Style in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill bjps-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (British-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/bjps-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/bjps-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Bjps Writing Style in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill bjps-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (British-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/bjps-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/bjps-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Bjps Writing Style in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill bjps-writing-style -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/bjps-writing-style, .gemini/skills/bjps-writing-style, .github/skills/bjps-writing-style and .opencode/skills/bjps-writing-style in your project.

What does Bjps Writing Style need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Bjps Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.

Does Bjps Writing Style access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Bjps Writing Style safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Bjps Writing Style use?

Bjps Writing Style is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Bjps Writing Style use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Bjps Writing Style?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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