JFQA Writing Style (jfqa-writing-style)

Use this skill to bring a JFQA draft up to house style. JFQA is a quantitative finance journal; the prose should be precise, economical, and result-forward.

Voice and structure

• Write for a finance audience — assume fluency in asset pricing and corporate finance, but state the economic intuition behind every result.
• Lead each section with its point; report economic magnitudes in plain finance units (bps, monthly alpha, percentage of a SD).
• Avoid over-claiming: conclusions must not exceed what the design supports.
• Keep the paper from drifting over-long — JFQA discourages excessive length and may desk-reject it.

The abstract and formatting (JFQA-specific, enforced)

• Abstract: one paragraph, no more than 100 words (see jfqa-contribution-framing). This is a hard cap; trim ruthlessly.
• Layout: 8.5 × 11 paper, 1-inch margins, 12-pt Times New Roman, double-spaced body and appendices.
• Submit a single text-searchable PDF (not image-only).
• Anonymize for double-anonymous review: remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, and identifying self-references; scrub PDF metadata.
• No specific named citation style (APA/Chicago) is mandated at initial submission (待核实); accepted papers follow the JFQA "Style Guide for Accepted and Conditionally Accepted Papers." Keep references internally consistent now.