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Eursr Writing Style

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript so it reads for a comparative quantitative audience, follows OUP/ESR conventions, and fits the…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Eursr Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills eursr-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/European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-writing-style .claude/skills/eursr-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
eursr-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
617 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 European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript so it reads for a comparative quantitative audience, follows OUP/ESR conventions, and fits the…

  • Works in 4 steps: Front-load the contribution. By the end… → Lead with the mechanism, support with… → Translate the estimates. Report what a… → …
  • Polishing a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript so it reads for a comparative quantitative audience
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Reach the comparative…, Format to OUP/ESR conventions and Fit the length (incl. text +…, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Eursr Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript so it reads for a comparative quantitative audience, follows OUP/ESR conventions, and fits the limits (Articles around 8,000 words including endnotes and references; abstract at most 200 words). Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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 European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript so it reads for a comparative quantitative audience
  • Follows OUP/ESR conventions
  • Fits the limits (Articles around 8
  • 000 words including endnotes and references

Example prompts

  • “/eursr-writing-style”

Workflow steps

4 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. Lead with the mechanism, support with models. State the macro–micro argument (from
  3. Translate the estimates. Report what a coefficient means (a predicted-probability scenario, a
  4. Acceptable English. ESR considers only papers in good English; clarity and concision are the

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

Eursr Writing Style loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 617 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~87
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 617 words, ~1,559 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/eursr-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
eursr-writing-style
description
Use when drafting or polishing a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript so it reads for a comparative quantitative audience, follows OUP/ESR conventions, and fits the limits (Articles around 8,000 words including endnotes and references; abstract at most 200 words). Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.

Writing Style (eursr-writing-style)

An ESR paper must be readable by a comparative-minded quantitative sociologist, formatted to OUP/ESR conventions, and disciplined to a target length that includes endnotes and references. This skill is about reaching ESR's audience and respecting the format — not generating claims.

When to trigger

  • Drafting the introduction, framing the contribution, or final polish
  • Over the ~8,000-word target and needing to cut without losing the argument
  • Writing the ≤200-word abstract
  • Aligning citations and format to OUP/ESR conventions (author-date, in English)

Reach the comparative quantitative audience

  1. Front-load the contribution. By the end of the introduction the reader knows the question, the mechanism and hypotheses, the comparative/longitudinal leverage, and what the paper changes.
  2. Lead with the mechanism, support with models. State the macro–micro argument (from eursr-theory-building) in words first; the estimates serve it. Avoid a results-first narration.
  3. Translate the estimates. Report what a coefficient means (a predicted-probability scenario, a marginal effect), not just its sign and stars — the reader thinks substantively.
  4. Acceptable English. ESR considers only papers in good English; clarity and concision are the author's responsibility. Spell out acronyms; define harmonization schemes (ISCED/CASMIN, ISEI/EGP) on first use.

Format to OUP/ESR conventions

  • Citations: author-date, parenthetical (e.g., "(Gans, 1962)"); one consistent style (manage with Zotero/BibTeX). Endnotes and references count toward the ~8,000 words.
  • Anonymity: no author-identifying information anywhere in the manuscript; you may cite your own work but must word it so it does not identify you ("in our prior study" → "in a prior study").
  • Abstract: ≤200 words, with no identifying information; keywords as requested.
  • Language: English; figures/tables placed per OUP instructions.

Fit the length (incl. text + endnotes + references; tables/figures excluded)

  • Tighten the literature review — engage the debate, not every paper (see eursr-literature-positioning).
  • Endnotes and references count, so prune redundant citations and over-long reference strings; keep endnotes lean.
  • Move extended robustness, invariance tables, and harmonization detail to the (supplementary) appendix.
  • Longer-than-8,000 papers are accepted but reviewers are asked whether the contribution justifies the length — make every page earn its place.

Prose moves an ESR reader needs

WeaknessComparative reader experiencesProse fix
Results-first narrationcan't find the argumentlead with the mechanism + hypotheses
Stars-only interpretationdoesn't know the magnitudetranslate to a predicted-probability scenario
Coding schemes undefinedstalls on ISCED/EGPdefine harmonization on first use
Over-long reference stringslength burned, argument thinprune; endnotes + references count
Self-citation in identifying voiceanonymity broken"in a prior study," not "in our prior study"
Show full SKILL.md (214 more words)Show less

Worked micro-example (illustrative)

A multilevel-study introduction is rewritten to reach the ESR audience.

Before: "We estimate random-slope models of the SES gradient in test scores across PISA waves..."
  → method-first; the reader doesn't know the argument
After: "Does early tracking widen the social gap in achievement by forcing high-stakes choices on
  families under uncertainty? We argue it shifts the gap from performance to choice..." → mechanism
  first, hypothesis visible, comparison implied
Abstract: trimmed 236 → 192 words, finding plain, no institution named → within ≤200
Length: pruned 35 redundant citations + 4 long endnotes, recovering ~700 words toward the ~8,000 target

The contribution leads, the method follows, and the prune is treated as a budget item.

Referee pushback → ESR-specific fix

  • "Reads as a results report." → Move the mechanism and hypotheses into the first two pages so the argument leads the estimates.
  • "What does this coefficient mean substantively?" → Translate it into a predicted-probability or marginal-effect scenario the reader can picture.
  • "Over length." → Tighten literature engagement, prune citation strings and endnotes; references and endnotes count, tables and figures do not.

Calibration anchors

  • Write for the comparative quantitative reader. ESR's reader thinks in mechanisms and magnitudes — lead with the argument and translate the estimates.
  • Endnotes and references are inside the target. ESR counts them toward ~8,000 words — budget citations from the first draft.
  • Confirm length/abstract specifics against the current OUP guidelines if exact limits are decision-relevant; the broad shape (~8,000; ≤200-word abstract) is stable.

Anti-patterns

  • A method-first or results-first intro that never states the mechanism or comparative stakes
  • Reporting estimates as stars without substantive translation
  • An abstract over 200 words or one that hides the finding
  • Self-references worded so they break anonymity
  • Treating endnotes and references as "free" — they count toward ~8,000 words

Output format

【Contribution stated by end of intro?】[Y/N]
【Mechanism-first, estimates translated?】[Y/N]
【Abstract】word count (≤200), non-identifying?
【Word count】Article ~8,000 incl. text + endnotes + references? (longer justified?)
【OUP style + anonymous + author-date】[Y/N]
【Next】eursr-transparency-and-data

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 European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Eursr Writing Style

What does Eursr Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript so it reads for a comparative quantitative audience, follows OUP/ESR conventions, and fits the…. Eursr Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript so it reads for a comparative quantitative audience, follows OUP/ESR conventions, and fits the limits (Articles around 8,000 words including endnotes and references; abstract at most 200 words).

When should I use Eursr Writing Style?

Eursr Writing Style fits situations like: polishing a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript so it reads for a comparative quantitative audience; follows OUP/ESR conventions; fits the limits (Articles around 8; 000 words including endnotes and references.

How do I install Eursr Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Eursr Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Eursr Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Eursr 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 Eursr 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 Eursr Writing Style use?

Eursr 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 Eursr Writing Style use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k 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 Eursr 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.