Earth And Planetary Science Letters Skills
Agent skill stack for manuscripts targeted at Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) — Elsevier's flagship letters journal for solid-Earth and planetary science (founded 1966, ISSN 0012-821X), submitted through Editorial Manager under editor-screened expert peer review. EPSL publishes concise, high-significance Letters on the physical, chemical and mechanical processes of the Earth and other p
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12- ▌ Epsl Workflow · brycewang-stanfordUse when starting or resuming any Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript and you need the entry point. Routes to the right EPSL sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and on whether the work matches the letters format (a concise, high-significance Letter; an invited Frontiers Paper; or a Comment/Reply). It dispatches; it does not draft content.
- ▌ Epsl Submission · brycewang-stanford bundleUse when running the final pre-submission preflight for Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) via Editorial Manager — letters-format length check, title page and highlights, declarations (competing interests, authorship, AI use), data-availability statement with repository DOIs, and figure/table file compliance. Final checks; it does not draft content.
- ▌ Epsl Cover Letter · brycewang-stanfordUse when writing the cover letter and editor-facing metadata for an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) submission. EPSL is run by a team of subject editors who screen for frontier significance and letters fit, so the letter must land the process-level advance, steer to the right editor, and supply clean suggested reviewers. It drafts the letter; it does not contact editors.
- ▌ Epsl Study Design · brycewang-stanfordUse when designing the sampling, analytical, experimental, or modeling program for an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript so the design can carry a process-level claim — sample context, reference materials, replication, blank control, and model resolution planned before data exist. It guides design decisions; it does not execute the campaign.
- ▌ Epsl Data Analysis · brycewang-stanfordUse when reducing and reporting data for an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript — full analytical-uncertainty budgets for isotope and geochronology data, defensible statistics (MSWD, weighted means, Bayesian age models), and inversion/model diagnostics. It guides reduction and reporting norms; it does not fabricate results.
- ▌ Epsl Writing Style · brycewang-stanfordUse when drafting or compressing prose for an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript. The letters format demands a main text near the 6,500-word cap, a process-forward title and abstract, and prose legible to geochemists, geophysicists, and planetary scientists at once. It guides writing and cutting; it does not invent content.
- ▌ Epsl Review Process · brycewang-stanfordUse when you need to understand how Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) evaluates a manuscript — subject-editor desk screening against the frontier bar, expert review typically drawn from the sub-fields the paper joins, and editor-led decisions. It sets expectations and hardens the paper before submission; it does not contact editors.
- ▌ Epsl Topic Selection · brycewang-stanfordUse when deciding whether a result fits Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) and how to frame it. EPSL takes concise, high-significance Letters on physical, chemical and mechanical processes of the Earth and planets, and desk-declines regional case studies without process-level insight, so this skill pressure-tests the frontier claim before you invest. It frames the contribution; it does not run analyses.
- ▌ Epsl Figures And Tables · brycewang-stanfordUse when building figures and tables for an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript. A Letter lives or dies by a few exhibits that a geochemist, seismologist, and geodynamicist can all read — maps with tectonic context, concordia/isochron plots with full error ellipses, model sections with resolution shown. It designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
- ▌ Epsl Revision And Rebuttal · brycewang-stanfordUse when responding to an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision. EPSL decisions are made by a subject editor on the advice of referees who often span two sub-fields, so the response must satisfy each specialist with evidence while keeping the Letter concise. It structures the revision and response letter; it does not fabricate new results.
- ▌ Epsl Literature Positioning · brycewang-stanfordUse when positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work. EPSL's readership spans geochemistry, geophysics, geodynamics, geochronology and planetary science, so the knowledge gap must be framed across sub-fields and against the frontier, not inside one method community. It frames the gap and citations; it does not fabricate references.
- ▌ Epsl Reporting And Reproducibility · brycewang-stanfordUse when assembling the supplementary material, data-availability statement, and FAIR data deposit for an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript. EPSL follows Elsevier's research-data policies and the community expects deposition in discipline repositories — EarthChem, PANGAEA, IRIS/EarthScope, MagIC, NASA PDS, Zenodo. It guides reporting and deposit; it does not generate the data.