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This guide provides detailed standards for polishing sociological manuscripts, helping authors transition from policy-report tones and overly technical model descriptions to a balanced, scholarly register. It focuses on grounding theoretical arguments in concrete social mechanisms and processes, enhancing the academic depth of the work.

This skill guides users on transforming a sociological manuscript from a descriptive literature review into a sustained, argumentative theoretical piece. It ensures the writing follows rigorous academic standards, adheres to the ASA Style Guide, respects strict length caps (including citations and references), and shifts the focus from summarizing findings to advancing novel theoretical propositions.

This framework guides researchers to evaluate whether their current manuscript meets the high academic standards of top-tier comprehensive journals (e.g., Social Sciences in China). It moves beyond technical sophistication, focusing instead on the depth of intellectual contribution, originality of theory, and the macro-level significance of the research problem, preventing mis-submission and guiding revision strategy.

A comprehensive guide tailored for authors submitting manuscripts to *Scientia Sinica Informationis* (SSI). It details the mandatory high-impact structural arc (Problem, Gap, Contribution, Evidence, Significance), covers dual-language abstract requirements, and specifies rigorous formatting rules for units, variables, and citations, ensuring adherence to top-tier academic standards.

A comprehensive guide for authors writing theoretical computer science papers. It details how to position a result within the existing academic lineage, ensuring rigorous citation practices, managing version discrepancies (preprint vs. journal), and honestly comparing bounds against prior work. Essential for meeting the high standards of top-tier conferences like STOC.

A comprehensive preflight checklist designed for submitting academic manuscripts to major journals. It ensures strict compliance with publishing standards, covering double-blind anonymization, required AI disclosure statements, ORCID linking, adherence to specific formatting rules (e.g., Chicago style, page limits), and data authenticity requirements for research integrity.

This skill polishes the prose and style of academic accounting manuscripts for submission to top-tier journals like The Accounting Review (TAR). It enforces strict house conventions, including adherence to the Chicago Manual of Style, structuring the abstract (max 150 words), ensuring findings are front-loaded, and maintaining rigorous author anonymization throughout the text for double-blind review.

This comprehensive skill guides authors submitting research to The Burlington Magazine. It outlines the rigorous academic standards required for object-based art history, focusing on connoisseurship, attribution, and provenance. It ensures manuscripts are tightly argued using primary source evidence, technical findings, and close visual examination, helping authors align their work with the journal's specific evidentiary bar and house style.

A comprehensive guide for authors targeting The EMBO Journal. This tool helps assess if a mechanistic molecular or cell biology manuscript is a good fit for the journal's rigorous standards. It covers required mechanistic depth, multi-line evidence expectations, house style, and provides a detailed, up-to-date submission checklist, ensuring authors maximize their chances of successful publication.

This skill guides authors on whether their British, European, or world history manuscript is appropriate for The English Historical Review (EHR). It details the journal's high standards for archival and empirical rigor, primary source command, historiographical placement, and formatting requirements (Chicago house style, double-blind review). Use this to check fit, refine arguments, and avoid common academic pitfalls.

A comprehensive guide for authors preparing analytic philosophy manuscripts for The Journal of Philosophy. It details the journal's high standards for originality, broad significance, and structural rigor. Learn how to focus your argument, engage with the strongest counterarguments, and ensure your work meets the expectations of a top generalist venue.

This comprehensive skill guides authors on submitting manuscripts to The Journal of Roman Studies (JRS). It outlines JRS's core expectation: an original argument built directly on primary evidence (inscriptions, texts, artifacts, etc.). It covers disciplinary standards for Roman history, archaeology, epigraphy, and literature, ensuring submissions are appropriately framed and methodologically sound before actual submission.