# Venue Guides — Shared Resource

Writing style guides, reviewer expectations, and formatting requirements for academic publication venues. Used by multiple skills and agents.

## Contents

### Writing Style Guides
| File | Covers |
|------|--------|
| `venue_writing_styles.md` | Master overview — style spectrum, quick reference, adaptation tips |
| `nature_science_style.md` | Nature, Science, PNAS — accessibility, storytelling, broad impact |
| `cell_press_style.md` | Cell, Neuron, Immunity — graphical abstracts, eTOC, Highlights |
| `medical_journal_styles.md` | NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, BMJ — structured abstracts, evidence language |
| `ml_conference_style.md` | NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR — contribution bullets, ablations |
| `cs_conference_style.md` | ACL, EMNLP, CHI, SIGKDD — field-specific conventions |

### Reviewer Expectations
| File | Covers |
|------|--------|
| `reviewer_expectations.md` | What reviewers prioritise at each venue type, common rejection reasons, rebuttal strategies |

### Formatting Requirements
| File | Covers |
|------|--------|
| `journals_formatting.md` | Page limits, citation styles, figure requirements for 50+ journals |
| `conferences_formatting.md` | Conference paper specifications (NeurIPS, ICML, CHI, etc.) |

### Writing Examples (`examples/`)
| File | Shows |
|------|-------|
| `nature_abstract_examples.md` | Flowing paragraph abstracts for high-impact journals |
| `neurips_introduction_example.md` | ML conference intro with contribution bullets |
| `cell_summary_example.md` | Cell Press Summary, Highlights, eTOC format |
| `medical_structured_abstract.md` | NEJM, Lancet, JAMA structured abstract format |

## Consumers

| Skill / Agent | What it uses |
|---------------|-------------|
| `/retarget-journal` | Formatting requirements + writing style when switching venues |
| `paper-critic` agent | Reviewer expectations when evaluating paper quality |
| `referee2-reviewer` agent | Reviewer expectations for venue-appropriate critique |

## Origin

Extracted from the venue-templates skill (K-Dense Inc., MIT license). US grant templates (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA) and poster guidelines were excluded — grants are not relevant to UK-based research, and posters are covered by `/latex-posters`.
