From jaar-skills
Formats citations and references for Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) submissions. Converts footnote citations to in-text author-date and builds alphabetized year-keyed reference lists.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jaar-skills:jaar-citation-and-styleThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
JAAR has a citation style that trips up authors coming from history or theology: **citations go
JAAR has a citation style that trips up authors coming from history or theology: citations go in-text (author-date), not in footnotes. Footnotes are for substantive remarks only. Getting this wrong signals you have not read the style sheet — fix it before submitting.
(Wolf 1996: 33) or in prose Clarkson notes … (1995: 45–46). Do not put bibliographic citations in footnotes.【In-text citations】author-date, not footnotes? [Y/N]
【Footnotes】substantive only, lean? [Y/N]
【Reference list】alphabetized, year-keyed, style-sheet form? [Y/N]
【House conventions】serial comma + gender-neutral + foreign-term italics? [Y/N]
【Transliteration】consistent + terms defined? [Y/N]
【CMOS edition】confirmed against live style sheet? [Y/N/待核实]
【Next】jaar-review-process
Most authors arriving at JAAR are trained in disciplines whose flagship venues cite in notes. The AAR/Oxford University Press journal expects a specific in-text apparatus, so the highest-yield style pass is mechanical reformatting first.
| You wrote (footnote-trained) | JAAR wants (in-text author-date) |
|---|---|
As Smith argues.¹ + note "¹ Smith, Imagining Religion, 22." | As Smith argues … (1982: 22). + keyed entry |
Ibid., 24. / op. cit. | Repeat author-date: (1982: 24) — no Latin shorthand |
See note 14 above for sources. | Cite in-text at the point of use; reserve notes for substance |
Cf. the *Bhagavad Gītā* 2.47. in a note | Cite the primary text in-text per subfield convention |
| Bibliography of "Works Consulted" | Reference list of works cited only, alphabetized, year-keyed |
An author submits a study of a Kabbalistic commentary with 78 footnotes, 60 of them bare citations migrated from a dissertation. The JAAR pass:
(Scholem 1941: 205–6) in the sentence; the note disappears. After conversion, only 11 notes
survive — all genuinely substantive (a manuscript-variant aside, a definitional caveat on sefirot).jaar-writing-style also enforces.jaar-structure-and-exposition tracks (notes count toward it); every surviving in-text
key now matches an alphabetized, year-keyed entry, and "Works Consulted" but never cited are removed.(Author year) to its entry.Hedged calibration: the downloadable sheet long referenced CMOS 15th while CMOS is now in its 18th edition; treat the in-text author-date system as primary and verify the named fallback edition on the journal's current submission guidelines rather than assuming the cached number.
../../resources/official-source-map.md — JAAR style sheet: in-text author-date citations, CMOS fallbacknpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jaar-skillsPolishes scholarly prose to meet JAAR house style for the study of religion. Checks argument clarity, gender-neutral language, serial comma use, and term definition.
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