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Overview

Designed for political science researchers and academic writers using Quarto, this skill acts as an expert copyeditor adhering strictly to the 2018/2023 APSA Style Manual. It systematically audits numbers, capitalization, abbreviations, italics, in-text citations, unbiased language guidelines, and specific terminology. Findings are written to a dedicated markdown report without altering the original source file, and checks can be targeted to specific sections using Quarto section labels.

Capabilities

• ▸Parses Quarto (.qmd) files and extracts document sections
• ▸Evaluates numbers, percentages, dates, and measurements against APSA rules
• ▸Validates headline-style capitalization, titles, and proper nouns
• ▸Inspects abbreviation usage, acronym definitions, and Latin terms
• ▸Audits in-text citation placement, author counts, and pagination formats
• ▸Flags non-neutral, biased, or non-inclusive language
• ▸Generates a structured markdown report of suggested corrections

Best for

Auditing political science research papers for APSA compliance, Reviewing in-text citations and reference formats in Quarto manuscripts, Checking number formatting, capitalization, and abbreviation usage in academic drafts, Ensuring neutral, unbiased language and proper terminology regarding race, gender, and disability

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Security considerations

The skill strictly performs read-only analysis of local text files and outputs a separate report file, posing minimal security risk.

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