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Use when main-paper exhibits are the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript — table layout, standard-error reporting, and publication-grade figures. Finalizes exhibits; does NOT decide robustness content or move material to the appendix.

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# Tables & Figures (rfs-tables-figures)

## When to trigger

- The main table has too many columns or unlabeled specifications
- Standard errors, significance stars, or clustering are unclear or inconsistent
- A figure is a default software plot rather than a publication-grade exhibit
- A reader cannot tell from a table alone what the regression is

## What an RFS exhibit must do

Every main table or figure should be **self-contained**: a referee skimming exhibits should grasp the design, the result, and the inference without the text. RFS articles are typeset by **Oxford University Press** for the SFS, so build exhibits to OUP production specs (vector figures, clean two-column-friendly tables). One RFS-specific constraint shapes every exhibit: because RFS requires **public release of all code** as a condition of publication, each table and figure must be **regenerable by the released scripts** — a number a referee cannot reproduce from your code is a liability. The portfolio-sort and spanning exhibits in Hou, Xue, and Zhang (2015) "Digesting Anomalies" (RFS 28(3)) are a good template for decile monotonicity and long–short t-stats.

### Table conventions
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