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jbes-writing-style
Use when polishing prose, theorem statements, the abstract, and the introduction for a Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES) methods paper so the methodological contribution and its empirical relevance both land. Polishes exposition; it does not change theory or results.
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# Writing Style (jbes-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- The prose buries the method, or the theorem statements are hard to parse
- The abstract leads with generic motivation instead of the methodological contribution
- The introduction reaches the method only after pages of setup
- Notation is overloaded and a reader cannot follow the conditions
## JBES house style: method-first, application-anchored
JBES is read by both econometricians and applied economists/statisticians, so the writing must make a **methodological contribution legible** while keeping its **empirical relevance** front and center. Unlike a general-economics journal (which leads with a finding) or a pure-statistics journal (which can lead with a theorem in the abstract), a JBES paper should pair the two: state what is methodologically new **and** why it matters for a real application, early and plainly. Theorem statements should be precise and self-contained; the heavy proofs belong in an appendix.
## The introduction arc (JBES template)