A skill your agent uses when applying the house writing style for a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript — precise quantitative finance prose, the strict ≤100-word…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Jfqa Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jfqa-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/Journal-of-Financial-and-Quantitative-Analysis-Skills/skills/jfqa-writing-style .claude/skills/jfqa-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
jfqa-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
611 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when applying the house writing style for a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript — precise quantitative finance prose, the strict ≤100-word…

  • Applying the house writing style for a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript — precise quantitative finance prose
  • SKILL.md covers Voice and structure, The abstract and formatting…, Anti-patterns and Sentence-level repair rules, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • The strict ≤100-word one-paragraph abstract

What it does

Jfqa Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when applying the house writing style for a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript — precise quantitative finance prose, the strict ≤100-word one-paragraph abstract, and the prescriptive 8.5x11 / 1-inch / 12-pt Times New Roman double-spaced layout submitted as a text-searchable PDF. Use to polish a draft to JFQA conventions before submission.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 and PDF. 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

  • Applying the house writing style for a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript — precise quantitative finance prose
  • The strict ≤100-word one-paragraph abstract
  • The prescriptive 8.5x11 / 1-inch / 12-pt Times New Roman double-spaced layout submitted as a text-searchable PDF
  • Polish a draft to JFQA conventions before submission

Example prompts

  • “/jfqa-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

Jfqa Writing Style loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 98 tokens; SKILL.md has 611 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~98
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 611 words, ~1,290 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jfqa-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jfqa-writing-style
description
Use when applying the house writing style for a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript — precise quantitative finance prose, the strict ≤100-word one-paragraph abstract, and the prescriptive 8.5x11 / 1-inch / 12-pt Times New Roman double-spaced layout submitted as a text-searchable PDF. Use to polish a draft to JFQA conventions before submission.

JFQA Writing Style (jfqa-writing-style)

Use this skill to bring a JFQA draft up to house style. JFQA is a quantitative finance journal; the prose should be precise, economical, and result-forward.

Voice and structure

  • Write for a finance audience — assume fluency in asset pricing and corporate finance, but state the economic intuition behind every result.
  • Lead each section with its point; report economic magnitudes in plain finance units (bps, monthly alpha, percentage of a SD).
  • Avoid over-claiming: conclusions must not exceed what the design supports.
  • Keep the paper from drifting over-long — JFQA discourages excessive length and may desk-reject it.

The abstract and formatting (JFQA-specific, enforced)

  • Abstract: one paragraph, no more than 100 words (see jfqa-contribution-framing). This is a hard cap; trim ruthlessly.
  • Layout: 8.5 × 11 paper, 1-inch margins, 12-pt Times New Roman, double-spaced body and appendices.
  • Submit a single text-searchable PDF (not image-only).
  • Anonymize for double-anonymous review: remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, and identifying self-references; scrub PDF metadata.
  • No specific named citation style (APA/Chicago) is mandated at initial submission (待核实); accepted papers follow the JFQA "Style Guide for Accepted and Conditionally Accepted Papers." Keep references internally consistent now.

Anti-patterns

  • An abstract over 100 words or in multiple paragraphs.
  • Single-spacing, non-TNR fonts, or wrong margins (formatting strikes).
  • Author identity left in the text or PDF metadata under double-anonymous review.
  • Significance language with no economic magnitude.

Sentence-level repair rules

  • Replace "is associated with" with the design language the paper can defend: predicts, prices, shifts, identifies, bounds, or correlates.
  • Attach a finance unit to every main result: basis points, abnormal return, spread, leverage ratio, turnover, default probability, or dollar value.
  • Put the sample and design before the headline number when selection is the likely referee attack.
  • Cut any sentence that would still be true in a generic economics journal; JFQA prose should sound like finance, not a methods placeholder.
Show full SKILL.md (306 more words)Show less

Before/after rewrites from a hypothetical corporate-finance draft (numbers illustrative)

BeforeAfter (JFQA register)
"Leverage is significantly associated with investment.""A one-SD increase in book leverage predicts a 1.4 pp lower investment rate, 11% of its mean."
"We find strong evidence consistent with our hypothesis.""Spreads widen 18 bps in the quarter the covenant binds, and only for firms near the threshold — the pattern the collateral channel predicts."
"Results are robust to a battery of checks.""The estimate moves between 1.2 and 1.6 pp across alternative samples, definitions, and clustering (Table IA.2)."
"This paper contributes to several literatures.""We revise the documented buyback effect downward by half once institutional crowding is measured."

The pattern in every rewrite: a finance unit, a scaling benchmark, and a checkable location replace adjectives.

Length and section calibration for a JFQA draft

  • Introduction: typically four to six double-spaced pages carrying the question, the answer with numbers, the design preview, and the rival contrast — there is no codified rule, so calibrate to recent JFQA issues and confirm against the journal's current author guidelines before relying on any limit.
  • Data and variable construction come before results, with the sample-construction detail that lets a referee reconstruct the filters.
  • Robustness that repeats the main table's message belongs in an Internet Appendix; remember the journal's stated impatience with over-long manuscripts.

Consistency sweep before the PDF freezes

  • One name per variable everywhere — text, equations, table headers, and the archive read-me; "BLEV," "book leverage," and "leverage ratio" must not coexist.
  • Numbers quoted in prose must match the exhibits to the digit; regenerate prose numbers from the master script output rather than retyping them.
  • Verb tense discipline: results in the present tense, sample construction in the past, uniformly.
  • Re-run the anonymization pass after the consistency sweep, since late edits are where acknowledgments and identifying phrases sneak back in.

Output format

【Prose】result-forward, magnitudes in finance units? [Y/N]
【Abstract】≤100 words, one paragraph? [Y/N]
【Formatting】8.5x11 / 1-in / 12-pt TNR / double-spaced / searchable PDF? [Y/N]
【Anonymized】body + metadata clean? [Y/N]
【Next step】jfqa-replication-and-data-policy

© 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 Journal-of-Financial-and-Quantitative-Analysis-Skills/skills/jfqa-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jfqa Writing Style

What does Jfqa Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when applying the house writing style for a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript — precise quantitative finance prose, the strict ≤100-word…. Jfqa Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.5x11 / 1-inch / 12-pt Times New Roman double-spaced layout submitted as a text-searchable PDF.

When should I use Jfqa Writing Style?

Jfqa Writing Style fits situations like: applying the house writing style for a Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) manuscript — precise quantitative finance prose; the strict ≤100-word one-paragraph abstract; the prescriptive 8.5x11 / 1-inch / 12-pt Times New Roman double-spaced layout submitted as a text-searchable PDF; polish a draft to JFQA conventions before submission.

How do I install Jfqa Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jfqa Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Jfqa Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Jfqa 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 Jfqa 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 Jfqa Writing Style use?

Jfqa 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 Jfqa Writing Style use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k 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 Jfqa Writing Style?

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