From ci-skills
Formats Critical Inquiry essay references as Chicago-style numbered footnotes (no works-cited), prepares 300 ppi figure files with captions and permissions, and checks word-budget impact of apparatus.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/ci-skills:ci-citation-and-styleThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
CI's scholarly apparatus is **footnotes, not author-date**. Footnote style **roughly follows The
CI's scholarly apparatus is footnotes, not author-date. Footnote style roughly follows The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition; notes are numbered consecutively through the manuscript; there is no separate list of works cited — full bibliographical information lives in the notes. And because the word limit counts all of that, the apparatus is part of the writing problem, not an afterthought. Verify the current edition and wording on the official page.
ci-writing-style).ci-evidence-and-objects, ci-submission).Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the object, theoretical stakes, interpretive turn, and permission/citation discipline; then judge whether the current manuscript answers the venue's real reader: humanities reviewers who expect a strong interpretive intervention rather than an empirical-results narrative.
claim / evidence / risk / manuscript location rows, so the next agent can edit rather than rediscover the issue.resources/official-source-map.md has been checked for volatile rules and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue-specific risk.【Notes】Chicago (17th ed.) footnotes, numbered consecutively? [Y/N]
【No works-cited list】full info in notes? [Y/N]
【Notes in budget】counted toward word limit, kept lean? [Y/N]
【Figures】separate 300 ppi JPEG/TIFF + caption + credit line? [Y/N]
【Permissions】secured / logged by author? [Y/N]
【Next】ci-review-process
../../resources/external_tools.md — reference managers, Chicago-notes tooling, image specs../../resources/official-source-map.md — CMOS edition, no-works-cited rule, image format/permissionsnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin ci-skillsRuns the final pre-submission preflight for Critical Inquiry via Editorial Manager — checks format, 9,500-word cap (including notes), Chicago 17th ed. footnotes, Word manuscript, separate 300 ppi images, and no-simultaneous-submission rule.
Polishes prose and formats citations for Art Bulletin articles to Chicago Manual of Style (endnotes, captions, CAA-style).
Runs the final pre-submission preflight for The American Historical Review via ScholarOne: masked-author preparation, 8,000-word target, Chicago notes, manuscript formatting, image alt-text/permissions, and exclusivity declaration.