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# OfficeCLI Academic Paper

OfficeCLI Academic Paper generates academic-style .docx documents with citation styles, numbered equations, cross-references, footnotes, hanging-indent bibliographies, abstract/keyword blocks, and multi-column journal layouts for research papers and theses.

**Install:**

```bash
npx degit https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI/tree/main/skills/officecli-academic-paper ~/.claude/skills/officecli-academic-paper
```

## README

# OfficeCLI Academic Paper Skill

**This skill is a scene layer on top of `officecli-docx`.** Every docx hard rule — style architecture, heading hierarchy, shell quoting, page-break rules, live PAGE field, Delivery Gate, renderer quirks — is inherited, not re-taught. This file adds only what academic papers need on top: citation styles, equations, SEQ / PAGEREF cross-refs, multi-column journal layout, bibliography hanging indent, abstract/keywords/affiliation block.

When the docx base rules cover it, the text here says `→ see docx v2 §X`. Read docx v2 first if you have not.

## Setup

If `officecli` is missing:

- **macOS / Linux**: `curl -fsSL https://d.officecli.ai/install.sh | bash`
- **Windows (PowerShell)**: `irm https://d.officecli.ai/install.ps1 | iex`

Verify with `officecli --version` (open a new terminal if PATH hasn't picked up). If install fails, download a binary from https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI/releases.

## ⚠️ Help-First Rule

**This skill teaches what an academic paper requires, not every command flag.** When a prop name, enum value, or field instruction is uncertain, consult help BEFORE guessing.

```bash
officecli help docx                          # All docx elements
officecli help docx <element>                # Full schema (e.g. section, equation, field, footnote)
officecli help docx <element> --json         # Machine-readable
```

Help is pinned to the installed CLI version. **When this skill and help disagree, help wins.** Every `--prop X=` in this file has been grep-verified against `officecli help docx <element>` — if help adds / renames a prop in a later version, trust help.

## Mental Model & Inheritance

**Inherits docx v2.** You should have read `skills/officecli-docx/SKILL.md` first. This skill assumes you know how to add paragraphs, set styles, build tables, insert images, manage TOC/footer/headers, force page breaks, and run the Delivery Gate. If any of those are unfamiliar, open a second session on docx v2 before continuing.

## Shell & Execution Discipline

**Shell quoting, incremental execution, `$FILE` convention** → see docx v2 §Shell & Execution Discipline. The same rules apply here verbatim — quote `[N]` paths, single-quote any value containing `$` (including `$2.8B` in a body paragraph or `@` DOIs), never hand-write `\$ \t \n` in executable examples, one command at a time. Academic-paper examples below use `$FILE` as a shell variable (`FILE="thesis.docx"`).

## What "academic" means here (identity)

An academic paper is a docx with a **scholarly layer** on top: verifiable citations, precise equations, cross-refs that stay in sync, a formatted reference list. The base docx rules still apply; academic adds six deltas:

1. **Citation style is a contract.** APA / Chicago / IEEE / MLA each dictate author format, date placement, reference-list order, in-text marker shape. Pick one at the start; every later decision (hanging indent, footnote vs parenthetical, `[1]` vs `(Smith, 2024)`) follows.
2. **Equations are first-class content** — inline `oMath` inside prose, display `oMathPara` as standalone blocks, optionally numbered.
3. **Figures and tables auto-number.** `SEQ Figure` / `SEQ Table` fields count them; `PAGEREF` links "see Fig. 2" to its live page number.
4. **Bibliography uses hanging indent** (first line flush left, continuation lines indented). Not first-line indent. Not left indent alone. Hanging.
5. **Abstract / keywords / affiliation block** is a first-page three-piece, not a cover in the marketing sense. Block-style abstract, no first-line indent, no decoration.
6. **Multi-column layout** appears in IEEE / ACM / Nature / many journals: single-column abstract + two-column body.

### Reverse handoff — when to go BACK to docx

Stay in **docx v2** for white papers, policy briefs, technical reports, HR templates — anything without a venue / citation style. Use **this skill** only when the document will carry at least TWO of: citation-style biblio, equations, SEQ/PAGEREF cross-refs, multi-column, abstract + keywords block.

## Workflow — 5 verbs

1. **Read the venue spec.** APA 7 / Chicago 17 / IEEE / MLA 9 / journal-specific. Line spacing, font, citation shape, biblio sort order — everything downstream follows from this one decision.
2. **Plan the sections.** Abstract → keywords → introduction → methods → results → discussion → conclusion → references. Estimate heading count for TOC decision (3+ headings = add a TOC, see docx v2 §Table of Contents).
3. **Set styles up front.** Heading1 / Heading2 / Heading3 / Caption / AbstractTitle / Bibliography. Define all styles BEFORE any content (→ see docx v2 §Paragraphs and styles — same rule here, same failure mode if skipped).
4. **Build body in order.** Cover / title block → abstract → keywords → TOC (if needed) → body sections in reading order → figures / tables with SEQ captions → bibliography → footnotes are added last by paragraph path.
5. **QA — Delivery Gate.** Inherit docx v2 Gates 1-3, then add academic Gates 4-5 below.

## Requirements (academic floor on top of docx v2)

Everything in docx v2 §Requirements for Outputs applies. On top of that, academic papers MUST meet these additional rules:

### Typography and spacing (venue-aware)

- **Font.** Times New Roman 11-12pt body (default) or venue-specified (IEEE uses Times 10pt 2-col; APA allows Calibri 11pt). Same body font throughout; no decorative heading fonts.
- **Heading hierarchy.** H1 = 20pt bold, H2 = 14pt bold, H3 = 12pt bold italic, body = 11-12pt. (Same numbers as docx v2 — restated because academic papers never rely on Word defaults.)
- **Line spacing.** APA 7 = 2x (double). Chicago / IEEE / most journals = 1.5x. Never below 1.15x. Set on body paragraphs and on References.
- **Margins.** 1 inch (1440 twips) all sides unless the venue says otherwise (some journals require 1.25in left for binding — check the spec).

### Abstract, bibliography, caption placement

- **Abstract is block-style.** NO `firstLineIndent`. Use `spaceAfter=12pt` for paragraph separation. If `view issues` reports "body paragraph missing first-line indent" on an Abstract paragraph, it's a false positive — ignore.
- **Bibliography uses hanging indent.** Each entry is one paragraph with `indent=720 hangingIndent=720` (left indent 0.5", first-line reversed by same amount). First line flush left; wraps indent under author name.
- **Figure captions go BELOW the figure.** Table captions go ABOVE the table. This is the single rule most non-academics get wrong — APA, Chicago, IEEE, MLA all agree on it.
- **Citation round-trip.** Every in-text citation key must resolve to an entry in the reference list. Delivery Gate 4 verifies.
- **SEQ presence.** Any paper with numbered figures or tables must carry live `SEQ Figure` / `SEQ Table` fields (not hardcoded "Figure 1" text that drifts when you insert a new figure mid-document). Delivery Gate 5 verifies.

### Cover / first-page block

Academic covers differ from professional covers. Minimum elements: title (centered, 20-22pt bold), author(s), affiliation, submission target or journal, date, abstract, keywords. The "60% fill" rule from docx v2 §Visual delivery floor still applies — a three-line cover with half a page of whitespace is a fail. See §Abstract / keywords / affiliation block below for the first-page recipe.

### Section numbering convention (STYLE-DEPENDENT — do not apply blindly)

Academic section numbers are **part of the heading text**, not computed via list numbering. `officecli`'s `numId`/`listStyle` mechanism is fragile across Heading1 re-use, so hand-write the prefix. BUT the prefix shape varies by style — DO NOT use the same form for all four:

| Style | H1 format | H2 format | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| **APA 7** | **UNNUMBERED centered bold** | Unnumbered left-aligned bold | `Introduction` / `Methods` (centered) |
| **Chicago** | `"N. Title"` left-aligned | `"N.M Title"` | `1. Introduction`, `2.1 Policy Formation` |
| **IEEE** | `"N. TITLE"` ALL CAPS + Roman numerals | `A. Subtitle` title case | `I. INTRODUCTION`, `II. RELATED WORK`, `A. Datasets` |
| **MLA 9** | Unnumbered left-aligned bold | Same | `Literature Review` (no prefix) |

APA 7 L1 headings are **centered, bold, unnumbered**; L2 are flush-left bold; L3 flush-left bold italic; L4/L5 run-in. Do NOT prefix APA headings with `1. / 2.` — that is Chicago/IEEE convention. IEEE wants ALL CAPS with Roman numerals (`I. INTRODUCTION`); inside each section, use `A./B./C.` sub-headings (title case). Arabic-numbered body sections are Chicago-style only.

**Exception for all four**: References / Bibliography / Works Cited / Acknowledgments are unnumbered regardless of style — omit the `N.` prefix.

## Quick Start — minimal APA paper

```bash
FILE="paper.docx"
officecli create "$FILE"
officecli open "$FILE"
officecli set "$FILE" / --prop defaultFont="Times New Roman"
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Remote Work and Team Cohesion" --prop align=center --prop size=20pt --prop bold=true --prop spaceAfter=24pt
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Alice Chen" --prop align=center --prop size=12pt
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Department of Psychology, Stanford University" --prop align=center --prop size=11pt --prop spaceAfter=24pt
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Abstract" --prop align=center --prop size=14pt --prop bold=true --prop spaceBefore=12pt --prop spaceAfter=6pt
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="This study examines remote-work adoption on team cohesion across 18 months..." --prop size=12pt --prop lineSpacing=2x --prop spaceAfter=12pt
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Keywords: remote work, team cohesion, psychological safety" --prop italic=true --prop size=11pt --prop spaceAfter=18pt
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="1. Introduction" --prop style=Heading1 --prop size=20pt --prop bold=true --prop spaceBefore=18pt --prop spaceAfter=12pt
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Remote-work research (Smith, 2024) has expanded since 2020..." --prop size=12pt --prop lineSpacing=2x --prop firstLineIndent=720
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="References" --prop style=Heading1 --prop size=20pt --prop bold=true --prop spaceBefore=18pt --prop spaceAfter=12pt
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Smith, J. (2024). Remote work and cohesion. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(3), 412-430." --prop size=12pt --prop lineSpacing=2x --prop indent=720 --prop hangingIndent=720
officecli add "$FILE" / --type footer --prop type=default --prop align=center --prop size=10pt --prop field=page
officecli close "$FILE"
officecli validate "$FILE"
```

Ten-line skeleton. Real papers grow by adding more body paragraphs, more bibliography entries (each with the same `indent=720 hangingIndent=720` pair), figures / tables with captions, and a TOC if there are 3+ Heading1s. The Quick Start validates clean; the sections below elaborate each dimension.

## Citation style recipes

Four mainstream families. Pick one at project start; every downstream decision follows. **Per-style decision table:**

| Style | In-text shape | Reference list order | Body line spacing | Footnotes? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APA 7 | `(Smith, 2024)` or `Smith (2024)` | Alphabetical by author | 2x (double) | Rare (content notes only) |
| Chicago 17 (Notes-Bib) | Superscript footnote number | Alphabetical by author | 1.5x-2x | **Primary** (full citation in footnote) |
| IEEE | `[1]`, `[2]`, ..., `[N]` | Order of first citation | 1.15x-1.5x, 2-col | Rare |
| MLA 9 | `(Smith 412)` page-number | Alphabetical by author, "Works Cited" | 2x | Rare |

Shared defaults across all four: reference-list paragraphs use `indent=720 hangingIndent=720` (hanging indent 0.5"); add a live TOC if 3+ Heading1s (→ see docx v2 §Table of Contents); set `updateFields=true` and report TOC page numbers as uncomputed until a Word-compatible field engine updates them.

### APA 7 (social sciences — psychology, education, management)

- In-text: `(Author, Year)` or `Author (Year)` for narrative. Page number required on direct quotes: `(Smith, 2024, p. 15)`. Three+ authors: `(Smith et al., 2024)` after first citation.
- Reference list order: **alphabetical by first author's surname**. Title caps: sentence case for article titles, title case for journal names (italic).
- Reference shape: `Author, A. A., & Co-Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), pages.` DOI preferred over URL; present as https URL, not `doi:` prefix.
- Double-space everything (`lineSpacing=2x`) including abstract and references. Body first-line indent = 0.5" (`firstLineIndent=720`).

```bash
# Body paragraph with parenthetical citation
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Remote work adoption accelerated during the pandemic (Kramer & Kramer, 2020)." --prop size=12pt --prop lineSpacing=2x --prop firstLineIndent=720
# Reference entry with hanging indent
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Kramer, A., & Kramer, K. Z. (2020). The potential impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on occupational status. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 119, 103442." --prop size=12pt --prop lineSpacing=2x --prop indent=720 --prop hangingIndent=720
# DOI hyperlink appended to the reference paragraph
officecli add "$FILE" "/body/p[last()]" --type hyperlink --prop url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103442" --prop text="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103442"
```

QA: `officecli query "$FILE" 'paragraph[hangingIndent]'` returns every reference entry; zero references with first-line indent instead of hanging.

### Chicago 17 — Notes-Bibliography (humanities — history, philosophy, religion)

- In-text: superscript footnote number; full citation in the first footnote (`Timothy Brook, The Troubled Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2010), 142.`); **shortened form** thereafter (`Brook, Troubled Empire, 150.`).
- **Repeat-citation rule (Chicago 17, op. cit. deprecated):**
  - **Immediately-consecutive** citation of **the same source, same page** → `Ibid.`
  - **Immediately-consecutive, different page** of same source → `Ibid., 22.`
  - Non-consecutive repeat → **shortened form** (`Brook, Troubled Empire, 150.`), NOT `op. cit.`. Chicago 17 drops `op. cit.` — use shortened form every time except for immediate repeats.
- Bibliography at end, **alphabetical by first author's surname** ("Brook, Timothy."), hanging indent. Footnote body renders at the viewer's footnote default (typically 10pt); bibliography entries 12pt. (The `footnote` element exposes only `text` — size is not settable per-footnote; trust renderer defaults.)
- Typical split for primary-source-heavy papers: `Primary Sources` and `Secondary Sources` as two Heading2s under a single `Bibliography` Heading1. Book titles italic in both footnotes and bibliography.
- Chicago also has an Author-Date variant used in the sciences — if the venue specifies Chicago Author-Date, fall back to the APA recipe and change only the punctuation (no comma between author and year: `(Smith 2024)`).

```bash
# Body paragraph that will anchor a footnote, then the footnote itself
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="The Ming dynasty's 海禁 policy shaped coastal trade for two centuries." --prop size=12pt --prop lineSpacing=1.5x --prop firstLineIndent=720
officecli add "$FILE" "/body/p[last()]" --type footnote --prop text="Timothy Brook, The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 142."
# Next footnote — shortened form
officecli add "$FILE" "/body/p[last()]" --type footnote --prop text="Brook, Troubled Empire, 150."
# Bibliography section split — primary sources first
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Bibliography" --prop style=Heading1 --prop size=20pt --prop bold=true --prop spaceBefore=18pt
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Primary Sources" --prop style=Heading2 --prop size=14pt --prop bold=true --prop spaceBefore=12pt
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Ming Shilu 明實錄. Taipei: Academia Sinica, 1966." --prop size=12pt --prop indent=720 --prop hangingIndent=720
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Secondary Sources" --prop style=Heading2 --prop size=14pt --prop bold=true --prop spaceBefore=12pt
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Brook, Timothy. The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010." --prop size=12pt --prop indent=720 --prop hangingIndent=720
```

QA: `officecli query "$FILE" 'footnote'` count ≥ body-paragraph citation count.

### IEEE (engineering — transactions, conference proceedings)

- In-text: `[1]`, `[2]`. Numbered in **order of first appearance**, not alphabetical. Reuse the same number for repeat citations. `[1, p. 15]` for page refs, `[1]-[3]` for a range.
- Reference entry starts with the bracketed number: `[1] A. Smith and B. Jones, "Title," IEEE Trans. X, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1-10, 2024, doi: ...`. Authors are initial-first; journal names abbreviated per IEEE list (`IEEE Trans. Neural Netw.`, not full name).
- Body is **two-column** (see §Multi-column below). Abstract is single-column above the fold, 10pt, 1.15x line spacing, typically 200-250 words.
- First-line indent on body paragraphs = 0.2" (`firstLineIndent=288` twips ≈ 14pt). Smaller than APA's 0.5" because the 2-col width is narrower.
- **Section headings: ALL CAPS with Roman numerals** — `I. INTRODUCTION`, `II. RELATED WORK`, `III. METHOD`. Sub-sections `A. Datasets`, `B. Baselines` in title case. Do NOT use `1. Introduction` (Arabic) for IEEE — that is Chicago style.
- **Tables are numbered Roman**: `Table I`, `Table II`, `Table III`. Figures remain Arabic (`Fig. 1`, `Fig. 2`). `recalcFields=seq` writes Arabic cached values for both — for IEEE Roman tables, either patch the cached `<w:t>` to Roman manually after recalc, or accept Arabic and note it in the cover letter.

```bash
# Body citing reference 1
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="Attention-based anomaly detection has been applied to industrial sensor data [1], [2]." --prop size=10pt --prop lineSpacing=1.15x
# Reference list entry — number in the text
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="[1] A. Smith and B. Jones, \"Attention for anomaly detection,\" IEEE Trans. Neural Netw., vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 412-430, 2024." --prop size=10pt --prop indent=720 --prop hangingIndent=720
officecli add "$FILE" /body --type paragraph --prop text="[2] C. Lee, \"Time-series anomaly survey,\" in Proc. ICML, 2023, pp. 1200-1215." --prop size=10pt --prop indent=720 --prop hangingIndent=720
```

QA: the highest `[N]` in body must equal the number of reference-list entries. Grep: `officecli view "$FILE" text | grep -oE '\[[0-9]+\]' | sort -u | tail -5`.

### MLA 9 (literature, languages, cultural studies)

Diff vs APA: in-text is `(Author Page)` **no comma** (e.g. `(Smith 412)`); direct quotes always carry the page number. Reference section titled **Works Cited** (not References / Bibliography). Entries alphabetical by surname, hanging indent, 2x spacing, nine "core elements" separated by periods: `Author. Title. Container, Other Contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Date, Location.` — skip any that don't apply. Book titles italic; article titles in quotes. Otherwise identical to APA paragraph setup.

## Equations (OMML — inline vs display)

`--type equation` parses a LaTeX-ish formula into OMML. Two modes, selected by `--prop mode=`:

| Mode | XML | Visual | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| `display` (default) | `<m:oMathPara>` at `/body` | Standalone centered block | Numbered equations, theorem statements |
| `inline` | `<m:oMath>` appended to a run inside a paragraph | Runs with the text | `if $x >