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Footnote - Referencing Guide

Conference Papers

Information

  • A paper in the published proceedings of a conference are referenced as a Book Chapter.
  • A conference paper published in a journal is referenced as a Journal Article.
  • A paper or poster presented at a conference but not yet published is usually cited only in a note and omitted from the bibliography.

Format

Standard format for citation

Conference paper in published conference proceedings:

Author of  Paper, A. A., and B. B. Author of Paper. "Title of Paper." In Title of Conference: Subtitle of Conference, Location, Date, Year. Publisher, Year of Publication. URL or Database Name if published online.

 

Conference proceedings:

Editor A. A., and B. B. Editor, eds. Title of Conference: Subtitle of Conference, Location, Date, Year. Publisher, Year of Publication.

Examples

Conference paper in print proceedings

Chappell, David. "Beachcombers in Oceania: Mediators Between Ship and Shore." In Along The Shores of Time: Submerged Historic and Indigenous Resources in the Pacific Rim Region: Proceedings from an International and Interdisciplinary Conference Held at the United States Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco Bay Model Visitor Center, Sausalito, CA, March 31 - April 3, 1999, edited by Roger E. Kelly and Gary Franklin, 43-48. Oakland, CA: US. National Parks Service, 2001.

Mann, Jill. "Chaucer and the 'Woman Question.'" In This Noble Craft: Proceedings of the Tenth Research Symposium of the Dutch and Belgian University Teachers of Old and Middle English and Historical Linguistics, Utrecht, January 19-20, 1989, edited by Erik Kooper, 173-88. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991.

Conference paper from the internet

Connor, Linda. "Climate Change and the Challenge of Immortality: Faith, Denial and Imitations of Eternity." In Anthropology and the End of Worlds: A Symposium Hosted at the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, March 25-26, 2010. Sydney: University of Sydney, 2010. http://anthroendsofworlds.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/connor-linda_final.pdf.

Unpublished conference paper

Teplin, Linda A., Gary M. McClelland, Karen M. Abram, and Jason J. Washburn. "Early Violent death in Deliquent Youth: A Prospective Longitudinal Study." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, La Jolla, CA, March 2005.

Conference proceedings

Balakian, Anna, and James J. Wilhelm, eds. Proceedings of the Xth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, New York, NY, 1982. New York: Garland, 1985.

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