Restructure an academic paper's title and section structure to match a target journal's house style.

Custom licenceAuto-check: notesDocuments & Office

Install Paper Style

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill paper-style -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills paper-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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/paper-style .claude/skills/paper-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
paper-style
GitHub stars
4.6k
Token cost
~2.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,158 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Restructure an academic paper's title and section structure to match a target journal's house style.

  • Works in 6 steps: Target Journal → Load the Journal's Style Profile → Map the Current Paper → …
  • User says paper style / paper-style / 期刊风格 / 按目标期刊调整 / 调整为XX风格 / JFE风格 / convert to journal style / restructure for [journal]
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Workflow and Writing Rules
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Paper Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Restructure an academic paper's title and section structure to match a target journal's house style. Asks the user to specify the target journal first, then adjusts main.tex accordingly (title wording and case, section skeleton, heading case, numbering scheme, merging/splitting sections). Trigger when user says "paper style" / "paper-style" / "期刊风格" / "按目标期刊调整" / "调整为XX风格" / "JFE风格" / "convert to journal style" / "restructure for [journal]", or wants a paper's title/sections reformatted for a specific journal…

Its SKILL.md is about 2.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/journal-profiles.md`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering LaTeX and Scientific writing. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • User says paper style / paper-style / 期刊风格 / 按目标期刊调整 / 调整为XX风格 / JFE风格 / convert to journal style / restructure for [journal]
  • Wants a papers title/sections reformatted for a specific journal submission

Example prompts

  • “s title and section structure to match a target journal”
  • “paper style”
  • “paper-style”
  • “/paper-style”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Edit, Write, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Target Journal
  2. Load the Journal's Style Profile
  3. Map the Current Paper
  4. Propose the Restructuring Plan
  5. Apply the Changes
  6. Report

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Edit
    • Write
    • Glob
    • Grep
    • AskUserQuestion
    • Bash
    • WebSearch
    • WebFetch

    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

Paper Style loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 135 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,158 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~135
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~5.3k

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: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Read, Edit, Write, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,158 words (~2,407 tokens).

“This skill adapts an existing academic paper (main.tex) to the house style of a target journal, focusing on two things:”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
paper-style
allowed-tools
Read, Edit, Write, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch
argument-hint
[path-to-project-folder] [target-journal(optional)]

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/paper-style of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/journal-profiles.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Paper Style

What does Paper Style do?

Restructure an academic paper's title and section structure to match a target journal's house style. Paper Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Restructure an academic paper's title and section structure to match a target journal's house style.

When should I use Paper Style?

Paper Style fits situations like: user says paper style / paper-style / 期刊风格 / 按目标期刊调整 / 调整为XX风格 / JFE风格 / convert to journal style / restructure for [journal]; wants a papers title/sections reformatted for a specific journal submission.

How do I install Paper Style in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill paper-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/paper-style in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/paper-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Paper Style in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill paper-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/paper-style in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/paper-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Paper 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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill paper-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/paper-style, .gemini/skills/paper-style, .github/skills/paper-style and .opencode/skills/paper-style in your project.

What does Paper Style need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Paper Style is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Edit, Write, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch.

Does Paper 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 Paper Style safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Paper Style use?

Paper Style has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Paper Style use?

About 2.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Paper Style?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Paper Style: Research Writing (alfonso0512/research-writing-skill, 490 stars), Paper Writing (MLNLP-World/Paper-Writing-Tips, 4.7k stars), Paperjury (Spark-To-Paper-Skills/paperjury, 1.2k stars) and Venue Templates (K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, 2.4k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Paper Style?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,556 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

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