imfer-writing-style

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# Writing Style (imfer-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The introduction buries the result and the policy implication under a long literature tour
- The abstract reads like a methods note and a policy reader cannot extract the takeaway
- The paper is rigorous but a mission economist could not tell what to *do* with it
- You are unsure of IMFER house conventions (italicized abstract, JEL codes, Chicago style, American spelling)
- The prose drifts toward JIE-style technical density with no policy register
- Country names, acronyms, and currency conventions are used inconsistently across the paper

## Writing for IMFER's two readers

Every IMFER paper is read by a frontier referee *and* a policy reader. The prose must satisfy both without talking down to either: the **academic claim** must be precise and the **policy "so what"** must be explicit and early. The house conventions reinforce a clean, readable register — the abstract is **italicized** and followed by **JEL codes**, style follows the **Chicago Manual of Style** with **American spelling**, and author biographies (≤80 words each) and contact details go in a **separate file** for double-blind review (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Write so the result and its implication survive a skim.