A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript to fit APA 7th-edition style, the I-O contribution-forward narrative arc, and the article-type…

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Install Joap Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills joap-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-Applied-Psychology-Skills/skills/joap-writing-style .claude/skills/joap-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
joap-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
544 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 Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript to fit APA 7th-edition style, the I-O contribution-forward narrative arc, and the article-type…

  • Works in 5 steps: Introduction: contribution by the third… → Theory & hypotheses: deductive. Each… → Method: full and replicable. Sample,… → …
  • Polishing a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript to fit APA 7th-edition style
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JAP narrative arc, Abstract (APA 7th, structured) and Worked micro-example —…, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Joap Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript to fit APA 7th-edition style, the I-O contribution-forward narrative arc, and the article-type length norms (Feature Article commensurate with contribution; tighter Research Report). Tightens prose, structure, and style; it does not invent content.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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 Deep 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

  • Polishing a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript to fit APA 7th-edition style
  • The I-O contribution-forward narrative arc
  • The article-type length norms (Feature Article commensurate with contribution
  • Tighter Research Report)

Example prompts

  • “/joap-writing-style”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Introduction: contribution by the third page. Phenomenon and stakes → precise gap → the
  2. Theory & hypotheses: deductive. Each hypothesis follows visibly from the stated mechanism; label
  3. Method: full and replicable. Sample, procedure, measures (with reliabilities and validity),
  4. Results: estimation-first. Report measurement model, then structural results with effect sizes
  5. Discussion: meaning, then boundaries. Lead with the theoretical and practical implications and

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

Joap Writing Style loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 544 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
~1.5k

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). 544 words, ~1,457 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/joap-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
joap-writing-style
description
Use when drafting or polishing a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript to fit APA 7th-edition style, the I-O contribution-forward narrative arc, and the article-type length norms (Feature Article commensurate with contribution; tighter Research Report). Tightens prose, structure, and style; it does not invent content.

Writing Style (joap-writing-style)

JAP prose is theory-forward, precise, and APA 7th-edition throughout. The introduction must make the theoretical contribution unmistakable, the method and results must be reported to a high disclosure standard, and the discussion must interpret meaning and boundary conditions — not restate results. Length is commensurate with the contribution (a Feature Article can be substantial; a Research Report is tighter). This skill fits and polishes; it does not generate claims.

When to trigger

  • Drafting the Introduction/Discussion or doing final polish
  • Writing the structured abstract
  • Aligning the manuscript to APA 7th edition before submission
  • A reviewer said the writing buries the contribution, over-claims, or wanders

The JAP narrative arc

  1. Introduction: contribution by the third page. Phenomenon and stakes → precise gap → the theoretical contribution (mechanism, level, boundary) stated against the closest prior work (see joap-literature-positioning). Do not make reviewers hunt for what is new.
  2. Theory & hypotheses: deductive. Each hypothesis follows visibly from the stated mechanism; label level of analysis; keep the logic tight (see joap-theory-and-hypotheses).
  3. Method: full and replicable. Sample, procedure, measures (with reliabilities and validity), design, and CMV remedies — enough that a reader could rerun the study.
  4. Results: estimation-first. Report measurement model, then structural results with effect sizes and CIs; separate confirmatory from exploratory.
  5. Discussion: meaning, then boundaries. Lead with the theoretical and practical implications and the boundary conditions; keep limitations honest and specific; end with concrete future directions.

Abstract (APA 7th, structured)

Write a content-bearing abstract: the question, the theoretical contribution, the design and samples (including levels and N), the key result (effect + direction + CI where it fits), and the implication. Confirm the current abstract word limit on the official APA page (commonly ~250 words; 待核实).

Worked micro-example — abstract clauses (illustrative)

For the servant-leadership package, every clause earns its place.

[Question] Do servant leaders raise team performance, and through what process?
[Contribution] We identify team psychological safety as a cross-level mechanism
  and task interdependence as its boundary.
[Design/samples] A two-wave multilevel field study (612 employees in 74 teams)
  and a lab experiment.
[Result] Servant leadership raised performance via team psychological safety
  (indirect = .13, 95% CI [.05, .23]); the experiment confirmed the safety path.
[Implication] Leadership develops performance by building safety, not by
  monitoring — with implications for leader development and team design.
[≈ confirm length against the official limit before submission.]

APA 7th essentials (know them cold)

  • Headings, bias-free language, author-date citations, and a complete reference list.
  • Statistics reported with effect sizes and CIs; exact p-values; report fit indices for SEM.
  • Tables and figures formatted to APA 7th; numbers, abbreviations, and statistical notation consistent.
  • Manage references with a tool; an APA CSL style or papaja keeps formatting clean.
Show full SKILL.md (191 more words)Show less

Cutting / tightening playbook

  • Move secondary analyses, full invariance tables, and alternative models to online supplemental materials; cite in one sentence.
  • Convert background prose into anchor citations (handoff to joap-literature-positioning).
  • Replace dichotomous "significant" sentences with estimation phrasing — often shorter and more venue-appropriate.
  • If the Discussion restates Results, delete the restatement; lead with theoretical meaning and boundaries.

Prose-stage reviewer pushback and the venue fix

  • "I can't tell what the contribution is" → state the mechanism/boundary explicitly in the introduction; do not defer it to the discussion.
  • "Over-claims causation" → scale the language to the design; reserve causal verbs for the experimental evidence.
  • "Discussion just restates results" → lead with theoretical implications and boundary conditions.
  • "Stats without effect sizes/CIs" → report estimates with CIs inline; this is non-negotiable here.

Anti-patterns

  • A long construct history that delays the contribution
  • Causal language unsupported by the design
  • A discussion that restates results instead of interpreting meaning and boundaries
  • An abstract that omits the contribution, design, samples, or key result
  • Stats reported without effect sizes / confidence intervals; inconsistent APA notation

Output format

【Contribution legible by p.3?】[Y/N]
【Hypotheses deductive + levels labeled?】[Y/N]
【Method replicable + CMV remedies stated?】[Y/N]
【Results estimation-first (ES + CI) + confirmatory/exploratory split?】[Y/N]
【Discussion: meaning + boundaries, not restatement?】[Y/N]
【Abstract】structured + within current limit (待核实)?
【APA 7th consistent?】[Y/N]
【Next】joap-open-science-and-transparency

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 Journal-of-Applied-Psychology-Skills/skills/joap-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Joap Writing Style

What does Joap Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript to fit APA 7th-edition style, the I-O contribution-forward narrative arc, and the article-type…. Joap Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript to fit APA 7th-edition style, the I-O contribution-forward narrative arc, and the article-type length norms (Feature Article commensurate with contribution; tighter Research Report).

When should I use Joap Writing Style?

Joap Writing Style fits situations like: polishing a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript to fit APA 7th-edition style; the I-O contribution-forward narrative arc; the article-type length norms (Feature Article commensurate with contribution; tighter Research Report).

How do I install Joap Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Joap Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Joap Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Joap 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 Joap 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 Joap Writing Style use?

Joap 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 Joap Writing Style use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k 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 Joap 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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