Skill UI

This guide provides a comprehensive strategy for authors submitting to conferences like WSDM, which historically do not have a dedicated rebuttal phase. It teaches preemptive objection engineering, how to structure answers directly into the PDF, managing post-submission communication channels, and planning next steps whether accepted or rejected.

This guide details the rigorous, unique evaluation process for academic articles and essays at Yale Law Journal (YLJ). Unlike traditional peer review, student editors conduct anonymous evaluations, focusing heavily on the originality of the claim, the completeness of the apparatus, and crucially, a thorough 'source-pull' where every citation must be rigorously verified and supported by the text. Use this to understand how to structure and prepare manuscripts for scholarly publication.

A comprehensive checklist for authors submitting to academic law journals, specifically tailored for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ). It guides users through critical pre-upload steps, including mandatory anonymization checks, adhering to strict length caps (Article, Essay, Forum), verifying Bluebook citation apparatus, and ensuring the use of the official submission portal. This tool helps prevent common submission failures before the final upload.

This skill acts as the central orchestrator for contributors to The Yale Law Journal (YLJ). It guides the user through the entire submission lifecycle, from initial topic selection and thesis development to Bluebook citation checking and final placement strategy. It emphasizes that submissions must be near-final, highly structured, and fully footnoted, directing the user to the appropriate skill path based on the article's track (Article, Note, Feature, etc.) and current stage.

This guide helps scholars assess if their social, economic, or cultural history manuscript aligns with the rigorous, problem-driven standards of Past & Present. It instructs authors on framing their research around a core "big question"—a genuine historical problem—ensuring comparative significance, adhering to historiographical expectations, and meeting specific academic standards like double-blind review and Chicago style.

This guide teaches how to structure the introduction of a scholarly paper to effectively position its unique contribution against the current academic frontier. Instead of writing a general literature review, it focuses on articulating the 'delta'—what the paper does that prior work could not—making the work highly visible to general-interest journal editors and referees.

This skill serves as a comprehensive guide for authors targeting The William and Mary Quarterly. It helps users re-frame local studies into arguments that engage with the field's major debates concerning 'vast early America,' covering topics such as slavery, indigenous encounters, and transatlantic exchange. It details field positioning, historiographical intervention, and submission standards.