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Builds exhibits for M&SOM manuscripts: numerical-study tables, policy/sensitivity plots, and regression tables in INFORMS house style within the official 32-page template.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/msom-skills:msom-tables-figuresThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- Numerical-study or regression tables are cluttered or not self-explanatory
M&SOM enforces a hard 32-page maximum for a new submission that includes everything — references, tables, graphs/figures, and appendices — measured when typeset on the official LaTeX/Word style files (one column, 11-pt font, 1-inch margins). Unlike narrative word-limit journals, this cap is mechanically enforced on the template, so every table and figure trades directly against text. Build in the template from the start; move bulky proofs, extra numerical experiments, and supporting tables to the online supplement (≤ 16 pages).
Use INFORMS author-year citations in captions and notes; keep every exhibit self-contained (a reader should not need the text to parse it); match notation, units, and labels exactly to the manuscript. Number tables and figures as the portal/template requires.
At M&SOM an exhibit that does not advance the operations insight wastes page budget against the 32-page typeset cap. A policy-structure figure earns its page only when the threshold/base-stock/switching curve is visible, not merely stated in prose; a sensitivity exhibit must show which primitive moves the optimal decision and by how much; a numerical-study table needs a benchmark column that makes the % gap the headline; an empirical results table needs an interpretable operational magnitude with clustered SEs, not just stars; and an identification figure should make the design credible rather than duplicate a number already in a table. The default repair for over-budget exhibits is the online supplement — full proofs, extra experiments, and notation tables live there. (Confirm the current page and supplement limits against the journal's author guidelines.)
Vignette: a base-stock model for a spare-parts network deciding stocking levels across echelons. Two exhibits carry the paper. Figure 1 plots the optimal base-stock level against lead-time variability, making visible that the level rises convexly — the structural insight a reader grasps at a glance. Table 2 pairs the proposed policy against a fixed safety-stock benchmark, headlining a 17% average holding-cost reduction at equal fill rate (illustrative). Figure plus benchmark-anchored table do more for the contribution than pages of extra parameter sweeps, which belong in the supplement.
【Template / page budget】on official style file; pages used ...
【Analytical exhibits】policy structure / sensitivity ...
【Empirical exhibits】results / identification ...
【Self-containment & style】INFORMS author-year; notation matched ...
【Supplement】moved to ≤16-page online supplement ...
【Next step】msom-writing-style
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin msom-skillsBuilds exhibits for Management Science manuscripts: propositions and numerical-illustration figures for analytical papers, or result/identification tables and effect plots for empirical papers. Enforces journal style, self-containment, and page-budget discipline.
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