From car-skills
Routes to the appropriate car-* sub-skill for Contemporary Accounting Research manuscript tasks, from topic selection through rebuttal. Invoke when deciding next step in a CAR manuscript workflow.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/car-skills:car-workflowThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill; it tells you **which car-* skill to use right now** for your CAR manuscript.
This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill; it tells you which car- skill to use right now* for your CAR manuscript.
Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) — the premier research journal owned and sponsored by the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) and published by Wiley (partnership since 2010), appearing quarterly (Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec). CAR is deliberately method-agnostic: it welcomes "interesting and intellectually rigorous work in all topic areas of accounting, using any appropriate method, and based in any discipline or research tradition." In practice the published mix is dominated by quantitative archival/capital-markets work, but CAR is also one of the most receptive top-tier outlets for experimental, analytical/modeling, field, and qualitative accounting research — so the first routing question is always which research tradition you are in, because methods, analysis, and contribution framing diverge sharply across archival, experimental, analytical, and qualitative papers.
Editorial team changes: Anup Srivastava (University of Calgary) is Editor-in-Chief, supported by Deputy EICs Elizabeth Demers, Alexander Edwards, and Hervé Stolowy and ~24 subject Editors; the EIC reviews all acceptance decisions. Verify the current masthead at caaa.ca/car-editorial-team. Fees, the Style Guide, and the Data Integrity & Code Sharing Policy change — confirm on the official CAAA/CAR pages.
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Idea is vague; unsure it fits CAR's broad-tent accounting scope | car-topic-selection |
| Predictions are descriptive; no theoretical/economic mechanism | car-theory-development |
| Front end reads as gap-spotting; the accounting conversation is missing | car-literature-positioning |
| Design/identification may not match the question (archival/exp/analytic) | car-methods |
| Have data; unsure about estimation, robustness, or code-sharing prep | car-data-analysis |
| Results exist but the "so what for accounting" is thin | car-contribution-framing |
| Exhibits cluttered, off CAR Style Guide, or not self-contained | car-tables-figures |
| Prose buries the question/finding; not in accounting house style | car-writing-style |
| Ready to submit; need the Editorial Manager preflight | car-submission |
| Want to understand CAR's double-anonymous review before/after submit | car-review-process |
| Received an R&R; need to plan and draft the response | car-rebuttal |
car-topic-selection — lock a question that fits CAR and your research traditioncar-theory-development — build the mechanism / hypotheses / modelcar-literature-positioning — join an accounting conversationcar-methods — match design and identification to the questioncar-data-analysis — estimate, run robustness, and prepare code-sharingcar-contribution-framing — make the accounting contribution explicitcar-tables-figures — finalize exhibits in CAR Style Guide formatcar-writing-style — full-manuscript prose polishcar-submission — Editorial Manager preflight (blind file, title page, fee, ethics)car-review-process — set expectations for the two-reviewer, EIC-approved processcar-rebuttal — after an R&R, revise then draft the response letter
car-tables-figuresandcar-writing-styleare late-stage polish. Do not invoke them while identification (archival), internal validity (experiment), or the model (analytical) is unsettled.
car-methods then car-data-analysiscar-methodscar-contribution-framingcar-data-analysis then car-submissioncar-submissioncar-review-process then car-rebuttalcar-tables-figures beautify exhibits before the design and contribution settle.car-rebuttal draft a response before the manuscript is actually revised.npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin car-skillsGuides researchers in selecting and sharpening a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript question, testing fit with CAR's method-agnostic scope and choosing the appropriate research tradition (archival, experimental, analytical, field, qualitative).
Evaluates accounting manuscripts for fit at Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), covering scope, methodology, framing, and desk-reject risks. Helps position work for this method-pluralistic top venue.
Routes manuscript work for Journal of Accounting Research from topic selection through rebuttal by invoking appropriate jar-* sub-skills.