manuscript-formatting

manuscript-formatting is a skill for Claude Code from neuromechanist/research-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,264 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A writing and submission guide for preparing research manuscripts for journals, including LaTeX templates, references, figures, and author requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to format papers, convert documents to LaTeX, manage BibTeX references, check page or word limits, and assemble submission materials.
Why use it?
It helps prevent formatting mistakes that can cause a paper submission to miss a journal's rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the manuscript plugin — 5 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to format papers, convert documents to LaTeX, manage BibTeX references, check page or word limits, and assemble submission materials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neuromechanist/research-skills/manuscript-formatting
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add neuromechanist/research-skills --skill manuscript-formatting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neuromechanist/research-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install manuscript, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for manuscript-formatting

README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,264 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Output Handling · line 52
    Output size or generation rate is not bounded. Unbounded output enables denial-of-service through resource exhaustion, log flooding, or context-window stuffing.
    Fix: Set explicit limits on output length, generation count, and rate. Use max_tokens and truncation to prevent unbounded output.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00073 $0.01264
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00632
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00126

Measured 12d ago against content hash b6b36644f1ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manuscript-formatting scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/manuscript/skills/manuscript-formatting/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manuscript Formatting and Submission Preparation

Format manuscripts to meet journal-specific requirements and prepare submission packages.

When to Use

  • Formatting a manuscript for a specific journal
  • Preparing a submission package (cover letter, figures, supplementary)
  • Converting between formats (Word to LaTeX, markdown to LaTeX)
  • Checking compliance with author guidelines
  • Managing references and BibTeX

Common Journal Formats

IEEE

  • Template: IEEEtran class
  • Columns: Two-column
  • References: Numbered, [1] style
  • Figures: Fit within column or span both columns
  • Page limit: Varies (typically 6-8 for conference, 12-14 for journal)
\documentclass[journal]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}

Nature/Science

  • Format: Single column, specific heading hierarchy
  • References: Superscript numbered
  • Word limit: ~3000-5000 words (main text)
  • Figures: Max 6-8, submitted as separate files
  • Methods: Often separate section with no word limit

PNAS

  • Template: pnas-new class
  • Columns: Two-column in print, single for review
  • Word limit: ~4500 words
  • References: Numbered
  • Significance statement: Required, 120 words max

PLoS ONE

  • Format: No specific template required
  • References: Numbered, Vancouver style
  • No length restriction
  • Data availability: Statement required

Elsevier

  • Template: elsarticle class
  • Multiple formats: preprint, review, final
\documentclass[preprint,12pt]{elsarticle}

LaTeX Essentials

Document Structure

\documentclass[options]{class}
\usepackage{packages}

\title{Title}
\author{Authors}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}
\section{Methods}
\section{Results}
\section{Discussion}

\bibliography{references}
\end{document}

BibTeX Management

@article{smith2024,
  author  = {Smith, John and Doe, Jane},
  title   = {Title of the Paper},
  journal = {Journal Name},
  year    = {2024},
  volume  = {10},
  pages   = {1--15},
  doi     = {10.1000/example}
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 177 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A b6b36644f1ad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

manuscript-formatting is a skill published in the GitHub repository neuromechanist/research-skills (45 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,264 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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