Style and Journal Rewrite
Establish Verified Requirements
Use the current journal author guide, current reference style, and user-provided published exemplars. Record the source and retrieval date for each rule. Do not infer requirements from a journal name alone.
Build a 期刊匹配矩阵 before revision covering article type, main title, running title, author block, abstract content, abstract subheadings, keywords, heading/subheading hierarchy, manuscript sections, body argument logic, figures, tables, declarations, in-text citations, reference list, and submission-file requirements.
Preserve Before Editing
Freeze factual content, values, units, identifiers, figures, tables, captions, citation fields, and uncertainty statements. Work on a copy and preserve live Zotero/EndNote fields.
Span-level Redline Contract
Produce a clean version and a redline/tracked-change version when changes must be highlighted.
- Mark only inserted, deleted, or replaced character spans as changed/red.
- Do not mark an unchanged sentence, paragraph, table, caption, or run red merely because another span in the same paragraph changed.
- Do not mark unchanged text red because of paragraph movement or surrounding formatting.
- Represent deletions with tracked deletion or an explicit deletion log; do not silently remove them.
- Generate the redline from an exact source-versus-output comparison, then sample-check unchanged spans.
Journal Formatting Workflow
- Match the entire article structure, title, title hierarchy, abstract content, abstract subheadings, keywords, heading levels, terminology, length limits, declarations, and submission-file requirements to the verified journal matrix.
- Format P values exactly to journal rules: symbol style, italics, spacing, decimal precision, thresholds, and equality/inequality notation. Preserve the underlying numeric value; never recalculate or invent it.
- Format tables to journal rules for titles, numbering, headers, units, footnotes, abbreviations, significance marks, and editable structure. Do not turn editable tables into images.
- Normalize in-text citations and the reference list to one verified journal style while preserving reference-manager fields.
- Verify citation placement at the exact claim it supports. Verify each cited work from DOI, PMID, Crossref, PubMed, publisher, or another authoritative record; flag unverified or mismatched citations.
- Revise body logic to the journal's expected rhetorical sequence: problem/gap, objective, method-appropriate evidence, result interpretation, limitations, and conclusion. Do not merely format paragraphs while leaving invalid section logic unchanged.
- Preserve all figures, tables, captions, reference callouts, and cross-references.
Deliverables
Return the clean manuscript, redline manuscript, Chinese change log, completed journal-matching matrix, journal-rule checklist, reference-verification report, and unresolved items.
Quality Gate
Block delivery if the title, headings, abstract, abstract subheadings, references, tables, or body logic fail the verified journal matrix; unchanged text is marked red; a P value was altered rather than formatted; a table or media object is lost; citation placement is unsupported; or a claimed reference cannot be verified.
