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Use when the prose, intro, or abstract of a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript must reach economists and geographers at once. Tunes voice, structure, and the 100-word abstract; it does not invent results.

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# Writing Style (jegeo-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The intro lands for one community but alienates the other — too much formalism for geographers, or too much narrative for economists
- The abstract is over the JEG limit or buries the spatial contribution
- The paper reads as "applied economics with maps" rather than economic geography
- Jargon from one tradition (NEG notation, or geography theory-speak) is unexplained for the other half of the audience

## Writing for two audiences without watering down

The hardest craft problem at JEG is that **every paragraph is read by an economist and a geographer**, and the masthead is drawn from both. The goal is not to dilute to a lowest common denominator but to make each move legible across the bridge:

- **Lead with the spatial economic question and its stakes**, in plain English, before any model or method. Both communities should agree on what the paper is about by the end of paragraph one.
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