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jmf-literature-positioning

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Use when positioning a Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a family-science contribution. JMF readers span sociology, psychology, demography, and family studies, so the paper must engage the family literatures they expect across disciplines. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the literature review.

When to use

• Drafting or revising the introduction and contribution paragraph
• Addressing reviewer feedback about missing family-science work
• Connecting home-discipline literature across family science
• Distinguishing contribution from closest prior family studies
• Building a three-column map of incumbent conversation, tension, and delta
• Returning a ledger of claim, evidence, risk, and manuscript location
• Comparing against sibling venues like Demography or Social Forces

When not to use

• Writing the literature review
• Providing submission-ready advice before checking official source maps
• Polishing format if a sibling venue owns the contribution

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