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Conference Papers

Information

  A conference paper included in the published proceedings of a conference is referenced as a Book Chapter.

  A conference paper published in a journal is referenced as a Journal Article.

Format

Standard format for citation

Conference paper in published print proceedings:

Author of Paper, A., and B. Author of Paper. Year. "Title of Paper."  In Title of Published Proceedings: Subtitle of Conference, Location, Month Day. Publisher.

 

Conference paper from the internet:

DOI available:

Author of  Paper, A., and B. Author of Paper. Year. "Title of Paper," paper presented at Title of Conference: Subtitle of Conference, Location, Month Day. https://doi.org/10.XXX/XXXXX.X

 

No DOI available:

Author of Paper, A., and B. Author of Paper. Year. "Title of Paper," paper presented at Title of Conference: Subtitle of Conference, Location, Month Day. Name of Publisher, Internet address.

 

Conference proceedings:

Editor, A., and B. Editor, eds. Year. Title of Conference: Subtitle of Conference, Location, Month Day. Name of Publisher.

Examples

Conference paper in print proceedings

Author full first name provided

Singh, Kamal, and Gary Best. 2004. "Film Induced Tourism: Motivations of Visitors to the Hobbiton Movie Set as Featured in 'The Lord of the Rings'." In Proceedings of the 1st International Tourism and Media Conference, Melbourne. Tourism Research Unit, Monash University.

Conference paper from the internet

Author first names' initials only provided

Beckermann, M. 2010. "Regeneration Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Signals, Signposts and Scaffolds," paper presented at the Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Conference (BSEC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, May 25-26. https://doi.org/10.1109/BSEC.2010.5510841.

Conference proceedings

Author full first name provided

Hall, Kira, Michael Meacham, and Richard Shapiro, eds. 1989. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Theoretical Issues in Language Reconstruction, Berkeley, CA, February 18-20. Berkeley Linguistics Society.


See the All Examples page for examples of in-text and reference list entries for specific resources such as articles, books, conference papers and web pages.