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Submission Guidelines for Authors
  1. Authors should submit manuscripts (as an attachment to email) directly to the Editor at ferguson@louisiana.edu. WORD is the preferred file format. 

  2. The first page should include the title of the manuscript, author contact information (including email addresses), and author biographies (not to exceed 50 words for each author).

  3. The second page of the manuscript should include the title, abstract, and three key words--e.g., cycles, reinsurance,  regulation.  No author information should appear on this page.

  4. The Journal requires a $35 submission fee (check payable to WRIA); this fee is waived for WRIA members.  To become a WRIA member, click here.

  5. Endnotes should be placed on a separate page and placed at the end of the manuscript.  Endnotes should be placed in numerical order (not alphabetically) in the text as well as on the endnote page.

  6. The reference style of the Journal is an alphabetical, unnumbered list at the end of the manuscript. For example:

    Barnea, A., R. A. Haugen, and L.W. Senbet (1985) Agency Problems and Financial Contracting. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

    Keleher, R.E. (1982) "Evidence Relating to Supply-Side Tax Policy," Supply-Side Economics: A Critical Appraisal, R.H. Fink, editor. Frederick, MD: University Publications.

    Miller, M. (1977) "Debt and Taxes," Journal of Finance, 32, May, pp. 261-278.

    In the text, a reference should show an author's last name followed by the year of publication in parentheses. For example: (Posey, 1998; Louberge et al., 1999).
    For direct quotes, a page number is added to the reference. For example: Hoyt (1989, p. 23).

  7. Each manuscript should end with a non-technical summary of the main conclusions of the paper.

  8. Papers should be formatted in the style of JII articles.  See, for example, Wen and Born (2005).

  9. Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, authors will be asked to submit three copies of the the final paper and an electronic file (email preferred) in WORD or Word Perfect. All tables, graphs, charts, formulas and equations should be placed in the body of the manuscript.

  10. The editor of the Journal of Insurance Issues is:
    William L. Ferguson, Editor
    The Journal of Insurance Issues
    Department of Economics and Finance
    University of Louisiana, Lafayette
    PO BOX 44570
    Lafayette, LA 70504-4570