A skill your agent uses when revising a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) manuscript for compact RES/OUP style covering the 150-word summary, the roughly 20-page printed-paper discipline, theorem…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Ectj Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ectj-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/The-Econometrics-Journal-Skills/skills/ectj-writing-style .claude/skills/ectj-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
ectj-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
592 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when revising a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) manuscript for compact RES/OUP style covering the 150-word summary, the roughly 20-page printed-paper discipline, theorem…

  • Revising a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) manuscript for compact RES/OUP style covering the 150-word summary
  • SKILL.md covers Style rules, Compression moves, EctJ page-budget pass and Theorem-prose conventions for…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • The roughly 20-page printed-paper discipline

What it does

Ectj Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) manuscript for compact RES/OUP style covering the 150-word summary, the roughly 20-page printed-paper discipline, theorem readability, one-page simulation summaries, applied-value clarity, and template-conformant prose that survives the desk screen.

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 Research & Science, covering Brand voice and tone, Plain language and style rules and Econometrics and empirical research. 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

  • Revising a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) manuscript for compact RES/OUP style covering the 150-word summary
  • The roughly 20-page printed-paper discipline
  • Theorem readability
  • One-page simulation summaries

Example prompts

  • “/ectj-writing-style”

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

Ectj Writing Style loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 592 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
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). 592 words, ~1,203 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ectj-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ectj-writing-style
description
Use when revising a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) manuscript for compact RES/OUP style covering the 150-word summary, the roughly 20-page printed-paper discipline, theorem readability, one-page simulation summaries, applied-value clarity, and template-conformant prose that survives the desk screen.

EctJ Writing Style

Use this when the paper is correct but too diffuse for EctJ.

Style rules

  • Write the summary in no more than the current word limit; RES guidance states a 150-word summary.
  • Keep the paper near the current printed-paper cap; RES guidance says manuscripts should not normally exceed 20 pages including the printed appendix.
  • Use the RES/EctJ LaTeX template and the separate online-appendix template when applicable.
  • Put assumptions close to the theorem or estimator they support.
  • Prefer short theorem interpretation paragraphs over long verbal restatements of algebra.
  • Cut general econometrics motivation that does not help the leading case.
  • Summarize simulation results compactly in the main text, normally within about one page, pushing full grids to the appendix.
  • Treat conformance as part of the science: EctJ instructions state that submissions not conforming to the guidelines are rejected routinely, so style and format are a screen, not cosmetics.

Compression moves

  • Replace broad motivation with the econometric failure mode in the first paragraph.
  • Replace a long literature survey with a closest-paper contrast table or two compact paragraphs.
  • Convert repeated theorem intuition into one theorem interpretation paragraph after the statement.
  • Move full simulation grids to the supplement and keep only the table that identifies the boundary case.
  • Put empirical application details after the method has earned them; the application proves value, not venue fit by itself.

EctJ page-budget pass

Before line editing, build a one-page ledger:

  • Opening claim: one paragraph that names the econometric object, the failure of existing tools, and the leading-case result.
  • Theory core: every assumption, theorem, proof sketch, and interpretation paragraph must have a visible job. If a proof step is essential to credibility, keep it in the printed paper or printed appendix rather than hiding it behind supplementary detail.
  • Simulation core: keep the design that tests the sharpest assumption or approximation. Push alternative grids, tuning sweeps, and robustness tables to the online appendix.
  • Application core: state why the empirical illustration is diagnostic for the method; remove institutional background that does not change interpretation of the estimator, test, or procedure.
  • Related work: keep citations near the claim they discipline. A citation that does not define the incumbent method, the relaxed assumption, or the applied use case is a cut candidate.

After the ledger, revise in this order: summary, introduction, theorem statements, simulation captions, application paragraph, then appendix cross-references. This catches the highest-friction EctJ style problems before sentence polishing.

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Theorem-prose conventions for RES/OUP print

  • State assumptions as numbered, referenced objects ("Assumption 3 fails when...") so the interpretation paragraphs can point at them; unnamed inline conditions cannot be audited within a compact paper.
  • After each theorem, write one paragraph answering three questions: what the result lets an applied user do, which assumption does the real work, and where the simulation confirms the finite-sample counterpart.
  • Notation is a budget item: a symbol introduced for one equation is a cut candidate; the EctJ page discipline rewards reusing standard notation from the closest published treatment.
  • Write simulation prose as findings, not procedure ("coverage stays near nominal until the rate condition fails at n=250" — illustrative phrasing), since design details belong to notes and the supplement under the one-page summary norm.

Page-leak patterns

Three sentence-level habits consume EctJ pages fastest: restating the theorem in words directly after its formal statement; defending each assumption against every conceivable objection rather than the one a referee will actually raise; and narrating the application's institutional history. Each deleted instance typically buys back a paragraph; across a draft this is often the difference between 22 printed pages and a conforming 19.

Output format

text
[Style diagnosis] compact / too long / too abstract / under-applied
[Summary fix] <150-word target or revision notes>
[Page compression] <move, cut, or merge>
[Template risk] <style, appendix, proof placement>
[Clarity edit] <specific paragraph fix>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in The-Econometrics-Journal-Skills/skills/ectj-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ectj Writing Style

What does Ectj Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when revising a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) manuscript for compact RES/OUP style covering the 150-word summary, the roughly 20-page printed-paper discipline, theorem…. Ectj Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) manuscript for compact RES/OUP style covering the 150-word summary, the roughly 20-page printed-paper discipline, theorem readability, one-page simulation summaries, applied-value clarity, and template-conformant prose that survives the desk screen.

When should I use Ectj Writing Style?

Ectj Writing Style fits situations like: revising a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) manuscript for compact RES/OUP style covering the 150-word summary; the roughly 20-page printed-paper discipline; theorem readability; one-page simulation summaries.

How do I install Ectj Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ectj Writing Style in Codex?

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

Can I use Ectj 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 ectj-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/ectj-writing-style, .gemini/skills/ectj-writing-style, .github/skills/ectj-writing-style and .opencode/skills/ectj-writing-style in your project.

What does Ectj Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Ectj 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 Ectj 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 Ectj Writing Style use?

Ectj 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 Ectj Writing Style use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Ectj Writing Style?

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Who maintains Ectj 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.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.