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jacs-cover-letter
GitHub用于撰写JACS投稿信，聚焦科学进展、广泛兴趣及期刊契合度。提供结构模板、语气规范及完整性检查清单，确保有效向编辑推销研究价值并符合学术诚信要求。
Trigger Scenarios
准备提交JACS稿件需撰写Cover Letter
需要向编辑论证研究的广泛兴趣和适配性
需在信中披露相关预印本或重叠工作
建议在信中推荐或排除审稿人
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jacs-cover-letter -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "jacs-cover-letter",
"description": "Use when drafting the cover letter to the editor for a Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) manuscript — stating the advance, broad interest, and fit. Drafts the editor-facing pitch — it does not assess the underlying chemistry."
}
Cover Letter to the Editor (jacs-cover-letter)
When to trigger
- The manuscript is ready and you need the cover letter for Paragon Plus
- You must justify broad interest and JACS fit to the handling editor
- You need to disclose related/prior submissions or overlapping work
- You want to flag suggested or excluded reviewers in the letter
What the editor decides from the letter
The handling editor triages on broad interest and fit before sending to review. The cover letter is your one paragraph to make that case clearly — it complements, never repeats, the abstract.
Structure (short, one page)
- Submission line — manuscript type (Article/Communication), title, intended for JACS.
- The advance in one or two sentences — what is new, stated for a general chemistry readership.
- Why JACS (broad interest) — the breadth driver (generality / concept / enabling utility) and who beyond your subfield will care.
- Key evidence — one line on the decisive support (e.g., scope + X-ray + kinetics), signaling rigor.
- Integrity statements — original, not under consideration elsewhere; any prior preprint/related submission disclosed; conflicts and funding noted as required.
- Optional — suggested reviewers and any justified exclusions (see
jacs-referee-strategy).
Tone and content rules
- Confident but evidence-anchored; no hype the manuscript can't back up.
- Editor-facing, not reviewer-facing: focus on significance and fit, not method minutiae.
- Honest about format choice (why Communication if urgent/high-impact).
- Disclose overlap with prior work, preprints, or companion submissions explicitly.
Checklist
- Manuscript type and title stated; addressed to JACS editors
- Advance stated in ≤2 sentences for a general chemistry audience
- Broad-interest case made (named breadth driver + audience)
- One line of decisive evidence signals rigor
- Originality / no-concurrent-submission statement included
- Preprint, prior, or companion work disclosed if applicable
- Conflicts/funding handled per current ACS requirements
- Suggested/excluded reviewers added if used
Anti-patterns
- Copy-pasting the abstract instead of pitching significance and fit
- Hype ("groundbreaking", "paradigm-shifting") not supported by data
- Omitting disclosure of a preprint or a closely related submission
- A page of methodological detail the editor does not need at triage
- Excluding reviewers without a brief, professional justification
Operating pass for Journal of the American Chemical Society
Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the chemical novelty, characterization chain, controls, and scope or mechanism evidence; then judge whether the current manuscript answers the venue's real reader: chemistry reviewers who expect a molecule/material/reaction claim to be supported by rigorous characterization and mechanistic insight.
- Do the pass: Return a claim-evidence-risk ledger rather than a prose-only diagnosis; every recommendation must point to a manuscript location or missing artifact.
- Return a ledger: give
claim / evidence / risk / manuscript locationrows, so the next agent can edit rather than rediscover the issue. - Sibling guard: compare against ACS Central Science for broad conceptual reach, Angewandte for communication style, specialized ACS journals for narrower chemistry; if a sibling owns the contribution, recommend re-routing before polishing format.
- Stop condition: do not give submission-ready advice until the pack's
resources/official-source-map.mdhas been checked for volatile rules and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue-specific risk.
Output format
【Type/title】Article|Communication — <title>
【Advance】≤2 sentences
【Broad interest】driver + audience
【Decisive evidence】one line
【Disclosures】original / preprint / related / conflicts — status
【Reviewers】suggested: [...]; excluded (reason): [...]
【Next】jacs-submission
Related resources
jacs-referee-strategy— choosing suggested and excluded reviewers../jacs-submission/templates/checklist.md— full submission preflight
Version History
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