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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bohannon, J., 2008. The Gonzo Scientist. Play it again, robot. Science 319, 1613.

A journal article with 2 authors

Herbst, D., Mas, A., 2015. Peer effects on worker output in the laboratory generalize to the field. Science 350, 545–549.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bushey, D., Tononi, G., Cirelli, C., 2011. Sleep and synaptic homeostasis: structural evidence in Drosophila. Science 332, 1576–1581.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Scannell, D.R., Byrne, K.P., Gordon, J.L., Wong, S., Wolfe, K.H., 2006. Multiple rounds of speciation associated with reciprocal gene loss in polyploid yeasts. Nature 440, 341–345.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cook, H.F., 2017. The Protection and Conservation of Water Resources. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Matthews, R.W., 2010. Insect Behavior: 2nd Edition. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Serino, L., Arcelli, C., Sanniti di Baja, G., 2013. Decomposing and Sketching 3D Objects by Curve Skeleton Processing, in: Ruiz-Shulcloper, J., Sanniti di Baja, G. (Eds.), Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications: 18th Iberoamerican Congress, CIARP 2013, Havana, Cuba, November 20-23, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–32.

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

Andrew, E., 2013. Scientists sequence DNA of 400,000 year old ancient human [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-sequence-dna-400000-year-old-ancient-human/ (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, 2006. Air Traffic Control Modernization: Status of the Current Program and Planning for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (No. GAO-06-653T). 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

Hartl, S.D., 2012. The role of culture in managing diversity: How culturally based heuristics differ in minority and non-minority managerial decision making (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: 11 Killed In Chechen Ambushes. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon, 2008; Herbst and Mas, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Herbst and Mas, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Scannell et al., 2006)

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