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car-writing-style

Use when polishing the prose of a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — a front-loaded research question, disciplined accounting terminology, the ≤300-word abstract that states question/predictions/method/findings/implications, and CAR Style Guide conventions (footnotes not endnotes, author-date references on a new page). Polishes prose; it does not run the submission preflight (car-submission).

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# Writing Style (car-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The introduction buries the question and the finding under setup
- The abstract is over 300 words or omits a required element
- Prose is jargon-heavy, passive, or inconsistent in terminology
- References or notes do not follow CAR Style Guide conventions

## Write the CAR abstract to spec

CAR caps the abstract at **300 words** on an abstract page that begins the manuscript and carries the paper's title. The abstract should state, in order: the **research question and why it is important**, the **predictions** (if applicable), the **research method(s)**, the **principal findings**, and their **key implications** — followed by **up to six keywords** for indexing. Note that the CAAA translates every accepted abstract into **French** for publication, so write an abstract that is clear and self-contained, with minimal idiom, so it translates cleanly.

## Front-load the argument