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ngeo-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a Nature Geoscience manuscript for Nature house style, accessibility to non-specialists, precise terminology, and calibrated Earth-science claims. Polishes language; does not restructure the result or manage the length budget.
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# Nature Geoscience Writing Style (ngeo-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- Prose is wordy, hedged, or dense with subfield jargon
- An oceanographer, geodynamicist, or atmospheric scientist outside your subfield would stumble on the opening
- Terminology or units are inconsistent, or acronyms are undefined on first use
- Claims over- or under-reach relative to the evidence and its uncertainty
- You are in late polish, after the result, Methods, and figures are stable
## Nature house-style essentials
- **Accessible to non-specialists.** Nature editors substantially edit for this; write so that any Earth scientist — not just your subfield — can follow the opening and the significance. This is the single most distinctive style demand.
- **Finding-first, active voice** where it sharpens meaning. "We find that ..." / "The record shows ..." beats passive circumlocution. The abstract uses "Here we show".