Venue Templates for Academic Publishing
Guides formatting of journal papers, conference submissions, posters and grant documents using venue-specific rules.
- Repository
- K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
- Stars
- 55,780
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 15 files
What it does
When installed, the agent follows a verification-first process before formatting an academic manuscript, poster or grant document: it asks which venue, year and track apply, prompts you to check the official author instructions, and treats bundled LaTeX files as starting scaffolds rather than official templates. It also brings in style guides for Nature, Cell Press, medical journals, ML and CS conferences, and can help adapt writing to a venue's reviewers. It can also run helper scripts that count PDF pages and check whether fonts are embedded.
Great for
- Researchers preparing a journal or conference submission who want formatting checked against current rules
- Students drafting a first paper or grant attachment who need to know which requirements to verify
- Lab members making a research poster that must match event dimensions
Skip it if
- Final submission decisions: the skill itself says reference files do not override official sources, and its bundled rules may be outdated, so verify on the publisher or agency site (risk of rejection).
- Grant forms that must be entered in agency systems: the skill warns not to recreate biosketches or current-support forms in LaTeX, and not to submit combined .tex files as agency forms.
- Users needing offline use: the skill says it needs network access to verify current venue instructions.
Try asking
- “Help me format my manuscript for the next ICML main track submission and tell me what to check on the official site first.”
- “Check whether my submitted PDF has nonembedded fonts and counts the pages correctly.”
- “Draft a one-page NIH Specific Aims section using the bundled scaffold.”
- “Adapt this introduction to Cell Press writing style for a biology audience.”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 15 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
venue-templates.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip venue-templates.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip venue-templates.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Give the agent the exact venue, year, track and submission stage up front, since rules differ between tracks and years.
- Ask it to record the official source URL and the date checked, then confirm those against the publisher's page yourself.
- Use the bundled scaffolds for drafting only; download the official template for final submission.
What's inside
- assets/examples/cell_summary_example.md
- assets/examples/medical_structured_abstract.md
- assets/examples/nature_abstract_examples.md
- assets/examples/neurips_introduction_example.md
- references/cell_press_style.md
- references/conferences_formatting.md
- references/cs_conference_style.md
- references/current_sources.md
- references/grants_requirements.md
- references/journals_formatting.md
- references/medical_journal_styles.md
- references/ml_conference_style.md
- references/nature_science_style.md
- references/posters_guidelines.md
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.