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Drafts and polishes Demography journal manuscripts to APA house style, word limits, and population-science readability.
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A Demography paper must be readable by a demographer outside its component, formatted to the journal's
A Demography paper must be readable by a demographer outside its component, formatted to the journal's loosely APA house style, and disciplined to the word and front-matter limits. This skill is about reaching population scientists and respecting the format — not about generating claims.
demog-submission).demog-literature-positioning).demog-tables-figures).Demography, the open-access flagship of the Population Association of America at Duke University Press, reads as population science when the prose names a process — fertility, mortality, migration, family formation, or compositional change — and the quantity that measures it. Two illustrative rewrites (language invented to show the move):
| Drafted as a generic association | Rewritten as a population process |
|---|---|
| "Education is associated with lower mortality (HR 0.78)." | "Among women aged 50-69, the college-educated face ~22% lower age-specific death rates, widening the e0 gap by ~2.1 years (illustrative)." |
| "Migrants have higher fertility." | "Newly arrived migrants show elevated period TFR, but a tempo correction suggests catch-up timing, not higher quantum (illustrative)." |
The left column could appear in any health or labor journal; the right column states the demographic quantity, the population, and the age/period logic a demographer expects.
【Contribution stated by end of intro?】[Y/N]
【Reads past the component?】jargon defined / acronyms + data sources spelled? [Y/N]
【Abstract】word count (<= 200); 【Highlights】3-5, each <= 85 chars?
【Keywords】<= 5?
【Word count】Article <= 8,000 / Note <= 4,000 / Commentary <= 2,000 (main text)?
【House style + anonymized】loosely APA + no self-ID refs? [Y/N]
【Next】demog-data-and-reproducibility
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