How to format your references using the Insurance Mathematics and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Insurance Mathematics and Economics. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Dahl-Jensen, D., 2000. CLIMATE CHANGE: Enhanced: The Greenland Ice Sheet Reacts. Science 289, 404–405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clausen, S., Smith, A.B., 2005. Palaeoanatomy and biological affinities of a Cambrian deuterostome (Stylophora). Nature 438, 351–354.

A journal article with 3 authors

Serizawa, T., Hamada, K.-I., Akashi, M., 2004. Polymerization within a molecular-scale stereoregular template. Nature 429, 52–55.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kubanek, A., Koch, M., Sames, C., Ourjoumtsev, A., Pinkse, P.W.H., Murr, K., Rempe, G., 2009. Photon-by-photon feedback control of a single-atom trajectory. Nature 462, 898–901.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Barron, E.N., 2013. Game Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Akoka, J., Liddle, S.W., Song, I.-Y., Bertolotto, M., Comyn-Wattiau, I., Heuvel, W.-J. van D., Kolp, M., Trujillo, J., Kop, C., Mayr, H.C. (Eds.), 2005. Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2005 Workshops AOIS, BP-UML, CoMoGIS, eCOMO, and QoIS, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Yu, T.H., Fuller, B.W., Bannick, J.H., Rossey, L.M., Cunningham, R.K., 2008. Integrated Environment Management for Information Operations Testbeds, in: Goodall, J.R., Conti, G., Ma, K.-L. (Eds.), VizSEC 2007: Proceedings of the Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security, Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 67–83.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Insurance Mathematics and Economics.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Spiders Can Hear You From Several Meters Away – Even Without Any Ears [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spiders-can-hear-you-several-meters-away-even-without-any-ears/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 2003. Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Some Coordination Efforts Among Programs Providing Transportation Services, but Obstacles Persist (No. GAO-03-697). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Estep, K.L., 2010. Outreach Communication by Grassroots Environmental Organizations: A Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Wasik, J.F., 2016. Accelerators Lend Help to a Business Idea Trying to Catch Fire. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dahl-Jensen, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Clausen and Smith, 2005; Dahl-Jensen, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Clausen and Smith, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kubanek et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Insurance Mathematics and Economics
Abbreviation	Insur. Math. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0167-6687
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Economics and Econometrics Statistics and Probability