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jf-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible, general-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership. Tightens the introduction so question, finding, and economic magnitude land on page one, trims hedging, and offloads notation to the Internet Appendix; it does not change results or run analyses.
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# Writing Style & Exposition (jf-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- The introduction does not deliver the question, finding, and magnitude in the first page
- Prose is dense, jargon-heavy, or written for a subfield rather than the broad AFA reader
- The main finding is buried; the reader has to work to extract the takeaway
- Sentences hedge so much the claim disappears
## JF house voice: accessible, precise, general-interest
JF is the **AFA flagship**, read across asset pricing, corporate finance, banking, microstructure, and household finance by 8,000+ readers. Writing must be **accessible to a finance reader outside your subfield** while staying precise. The manuscript also faces a **60-page limit** (≥1.5 spacing, 12-pt font), so lead with economics and **offload technical depth to the Internet Appendix** (bundled at the end of the same PDF; see `jf-internet-appendix`) rather than padding the body.
## The JF introduction (first ~3 pages do the work)