Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the American Political Science Review (APSR) via Editorial Manager — track selection, double-anonymous preparation, word/abstract caps, APSA-style formatting, ORCID, and declarations. Final checks; it does not draft content.
SkillScore100Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 23 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 17 of 23 without it.
Without skill74%
With skill100%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
States that APSR charges no submission fee.
States that the Regular Article word cap is under 11,000 words.
States that the reference list is excluded from the word count.
and 4 more in the full report
6 fixed17 passed either way0 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+26 pp
Tokens
+53%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-35%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v123 of 23 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 6 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 6
Prompt
When calculating the front-page word count for an APSR Regular Article submission, should I include the text inside my tables, figures, and footnotes, and should I include the reference list at the end?
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
States that tables, figures, and printed footnotes are included in the word count.
Passed
Passed
States that the reference list is excluded from the word count.
Missed
Passed
case-07 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md109 linessingle file
Submission Preflight (apsr-submission)
The last check before pressing submit on Editorial Manager. APSR is double-anonymous, so the
single most common avoidable failure is an under-anonymized manuscript. Verify volatile specifics on
the official page before relying on them.
When to trigger
"Submitting tomorrow" — last pass before upload
Unsure which files/metadata Editorial Manager expects
Confirming the chosen track's caps are met and the manuscript is properly anonymized
Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page)
Owner / publisher: American Political Science Association (APSA) / Cambridge University Press.
Review model:double-anonymous — anonymize the manuscript; provide a separate title page.
Tracks: Regular Article (< 11,000 words), Research Note (< 7,000 words — see 待核实 on the exact
cap), Replications and Reappraisals, Syntheses, Registered Reports.
Abstract:≤ 150 words.
Word count: put it on the front page; counts include tables, figures, and printed
footnotes, exclude the reference list and online appendices.
Style:APSA Style Manual for Political Science (author-date).
ORCID: required for the corresponding author (submissions after 1 Jan 2019).
Fee: no submission fee and no APSA-membership requirement (verified 2026-06-22). Hybrid Cambridge journal; post-acceptance Gold OA APC is optional — Cambridge 2026 standard £2,610 / US $3,655 plus tax (re-verify the current rate before submission).
Anonymization deep-audit (the failure that actually happens)
Under double-anonymous review the manuscript file itself must not identify you. Beyond deleting the
byline, sweep these known leak points:
Self-citations. Keep the citations (omitting them distorts the literature) but voice them in
the third person: "as we demonstrated (Author 2021)" → "as Author (2021) demonstrates." Avoid
a wall of "Anonymized (2021)" placeholders — a cluster of redactions identifies you almost as
reliably as a name.
Acknowledgments, grant numbers, IRB protocol numbers — move to the separate title page; an
IRB number is traceable to an institution.
File metadata — author fields, tracked-changes and comment names, PDF creator strings. Strip
in the source and re-check the compiled PDF.
Links — replication or preregistration URLs on a named account; use anonymized views until
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) — format selection, double-blind anonymization, word/abstract caps, Cambridge (Harvard author-date) house style, ORCID, and declarations. Final checks; it does not draft content.