Skill UI

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 guides legal scholars in transforming a broad legal topic into a single, sharp, contestable, and generalist thesis statement suitable for top-tier law journals. It forces the definition of the contribution's nature—whether descriptive, doctrinal, theoretical, or normative—and structures the argument into a clear, defensible 'contribution contract' for academic editors.

This skill revises legal prose to match the high standards of major academic journals, ensuring clarity and readability for a generalist legal audience (e.g., non-specialist scholars, judges, and practitioners). It focuses on making the argument visible in the main text, maintaining a confident, plain voice, and properly balancing supporting material in footnotes with core reasoning in the body. Ideal for final polish passes before submission.

A guide on how to sharpen the marginal contribution of an academic manuscript for specialized journals (like JEG). It teaches authors to transform vague statements into precise, one-sentence claims that clearly advance understanding in growth theory or empirical econometrics, focusing on mechanisms and causal channels.

This guide helps polish academic manuscripts for submission to specialized journals, such as the Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI). It ensures adherence to institutional house conventions (numbered sections, author-date referencing, concise abstract) and, critically, structures the argumentation to explain the underlying economic mechanism *before* presenting formal econometric specifications, elevating the paper's scholarly rigor.

This guide provides a structured framework for presenting complex empirical results in academic manuscripts, particularly for international marketing journals. It details the essential 'spine exhibits' (conceptual models, invariance tables, cross-national patterns) and teaches techniques like the 'claim test' and 'triage' to ensure arguments are clear, rigorous, and adhere to strict page limits.

This guide helps researchers structure and refine academic papers for the Journal on Communications (JOC). It provides a framework for separating core, decision-making content (main text) from supporting details (appendices/supplementary material), ensuring the manuscript remains scientifically rigorous yet adheres to strict length constraints (e.g., ~12000 characters). It teaches how to use a 'decisive three-question' standard.

This guide provides expert strategies for positioning academic research, particularly in urban economics. It teaches how to precisely articulate a manuscript's marginal contribution against established theoretical frontiers (e.g., agglomeration, spatial equilibrium, housing supply) and related canonical literature, ensuring the paper is clearly differentiated and compelling to expert referees.

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting policy or management papers, detailing the required structure and depth for the institutional background section. It ensures the manuscript meets the high standards of major academic journals by providing a four-part framework, timeline requirements, and linking the policy context directly to the identification strategy.

A comprehensive guide for positioning high-impact scientific research for journals like Nature. It covers scope fit, methodological rigor, structural constraints, and techniques for framing complex findings into a universal, compelling narrative for a broad, non-specialist audience.

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.