From mgsci-skills
Polishes prose for Management Science (INFORMS) manuscripts — front-loading results, pairing notation with intuition, enforcing author-year citations, and trimming to journal length preferences.
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/mgsci-skills:mgsci-writing-styleThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The prose is notation-dense, passive, or buries the main result
Management Science explicitly prefers short, focused papers and warns that excessive length and notation density slow review. The style bar is rigor expressed economically and read by editors across many departments.
State what you find and why it matters in the abstract and the first pages. A Department Editor desk-screening dozens of papers should see the result, the mechanism, and the decision relevance early — not after twenty pages of setup. The abstract is 250 words or less with 3–5 keywords; make every word carry the contribution.
Formal rigor is required, but a Management Science paper is not a proof transcript. For each key model object and result, give the plain-language reading: what the assumption means behaviorally, what the proposition says in words, what the comparative static implies for a decision-maker. Introduce notation only when used, keep it minimal and consistent, and never make the reader hold five symbols in their head to follow a sentence.
Because the contribution must travel across departments, avoid sub-field jargon that only your immediate stream parses, or define it on first use. A finance reader should follow your operations result's significance, and vice versa. This breadth of audience is a defining feature of the flagship, not an optional courtesy.
There is no formal limit at initial submission, but brevity is rewarded and invited revisions are capped (47 pages double-spaced / 32 pages 1.5-spaced, online appendix excluded). Tighten now so a revision is not a triage emergency later.
Because Management Science is the broad multidisciplinary INFORMS flagship, the Department Editor first reading your prose may be from another field entirely. An Information Systems / Business Strategy submission models two-sided platform competition with an empirical test. The draft abstract opens: "We study the interaction between cross-side network effects and seller multi-homing under heterogeneous buyer search costs." A reader cannot tell what was found.
Front-loaded rewrite (numbers illustrative): "When buyer search costs fall by half, the equilibrium flips from single- to multi-homing and platform commissions drop from 15% to about 9%; a marketplace lowering friction should expect thinner take rates, not fatter." Now result, mechanism, and decision lever land in one sentence a finance or operations reader also grasps. The discipline: claim the qualitative flip robustly, but treat the 9% as illustrative of direction, not a forecast.
【Front-loaded?】result + decision relevance in abstract/first pages: yes/no
【Notation ↔ intuition】every key result interpreted in words: yes/no
【Cross-department readability】jargon defined / minimized: yes/no
【House style】author-year; 11-pt, 1-inch; abstract ≤250 words, 3–5 keywords: yes/no
【Length】tight; revision cap reachable: yes/no
【Next step】mgsci-submission
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