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Conference proceedings:

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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, 2004 , 98-111. Melbourne: Tourism Research Unit, Monash University.

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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, 2010 . https://doi.org/10.1109/BSEC.2010.5510841.

Conference proceedings

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

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This page covers types of media you may want to cite that don’t properly fit into any of the previous pages. If you are attempting to cite a source that you can find neither on this page nor any of the others in the Chicago section, consult the  CMOS  or model your citation on the example that most closely resembles your source.

This entry covers the Chicago Manual of Style guidelines for citing lectures, papers presented at meetings or poster sessions, and other similar presentations. Such entries often include the sponsorship, location, and date of the meeting following the title. When such texts are published, they should be treated like a chapter in a book or article in a journal. If the material is available online, include a URL at the end of your citation. The model is as follows:

Note that not all lectures have titles – if you are, for instance, citing a lecture given by a professor to his class, there may be no title to provide. In this case, feel free to skip that portion of the citation.

Visual Arts

This entry can be applied to paintings, sculptures, and all forms of visual art. (Music and other performing arts are covered under LINK:“Audiovisual Recordings and Other Multimedia.”) As usual, these must be cited with title, creator, and date as available, but the nature of these sources requires that you also provide medium, dimensions, and physical location, as follows:

There is some flexibility in portions of this citation. “Date” can be as simple as the year the piece of art was completed; it can be specific enough to include a season, month, or even a day. There might also be complications to acknowledge. In analog photography, for example, the date the photo was taken and the day it was developed into the print you are referencing are probably different; you might acknowledge that with something like “Spring 2013, printed 2018.” You may also have to give a date range if the specific year is unknown. “Location” might be a museum where it is on display, a private collection, or a publication in which it is reproduced; though, if possible, you should always cite the original rather than a reproduction.

You may find “Dimensions” unfamiliar, but most museums and the like will provide you with the medium and dimensions as part of the display or their website; these are standard attributes by which artwork is catalogued. Note that, when dealing with two-dimensional pieces such as paintings or photographs, you will use only height and width; “height” refers to the vertical dimension when the painting is hung on the wall in its correct orientation. Three-dimensional pieces will also include “depth.” Note that it is encouraged to provide dimensions in both imperial and metric units – use whichever the displaying institution gives, then follow it with a conversion in parentheses.

If images of the piece are available online, you should provide a URL at the end of your citation.  

Ancient, Sacred, Medieval, or Classic Texts

Some texts have been reprinted and re-translated so often over the centuries that conventional citations are counterproductive. If, for instance, you cited page 73 of Beowulf, your reader may be unable to find that reference – there are dozens of different translations and editions out there, very few of which share pagination. Even if you specify the edition, that may frustrate readers who have other editions. However, nearly all editions of Beowulf have the same line-numbering system, so citing line 2145 will be accessible to everyone. This same concept, on a larger scale, is what we call “classical citation”.

Classical citation applies only to old, widely-circulated texts with many varied editions. In classical citation, rather than follow page number, you simply follow whatever organizational scheme the author set up, as well as a line number for poetic works. This is used only in note citations – in the bibliography, you are expected to cite the book as normal, so that all the information on your specific edition is provided. The format is extremely simple, and goes as follows:

It is considerate to your reader to specify the edition, translator, numbering   system, or any other relevant information in the very first note citation:

Note that you should only include those details if they’re relevant – it is rare, for instance, that there are competing numbering systems that would require you to specify whose you are using. Often the editor is the translator, and therefore does not need to be cited twice. In all subsequent note citations, use only the brief classical citation.

The numbers by which you cite a specific passage in one of these texts vary depending on the type of text you are using. For an epic poem, you should use “book.line”; for classic plays, you should use “act.scene.line.”; for many medieval and classical texts, you should use “book.chapter.section”, if all three are provided. Some texts, like Plato’s or Aristotle’s works, have their own specialized numbering systems. Prose texts that were not divided into chapters and sections by the author are often just cited by paragraph number. Sacred texts generally use colons instead of periods and cite “chapter:verse” – however, if you are citing a sacred text from any religion you are not intimately familiar with, you should check and see what system the adherents of that religion have developed for their text, or at least follow conventions set down by authoritative scholarship.

There are a few additional quirks in classical citation. For instance, if you are citing the Bible, you must specify which version you are using in every note citation, due to the wide variation from one to another. Many classical texts and authors have official abbreviations you can use if you want to shorten your citations still further – the catalog of these abbreviations is maintained by the Oxford Classical Dictionary . If you feel it is necessary, you can also include labels such as “bk.”, “para.”, “line”, “chap.”, and so forth in the first note, in which case you would write it more like this:

The following examples cover a range of different types of texts that commonly use classical citation.

Reference Works

This entry covers publications such as dictionaries, encyclopediae, style guides, and the like. There are a few relevant differences between citing these works and a regular book; all of these differences apply to the note form, not the bibliography form, however, so we will only have examples in note format. Other than the differences noted below, you may cite reference works as you would any other publication of that medium.

First, any such work that is organized into sections will be cited by said sections, rather than by page number, like the classical works above:

Works organized into entries, such as dictionaries, will be cited by entry. However, rather than treat them like a chapter or section in a standard book, you treat them like a page number. This is marked by the abbreviation s.v., which stands for sub verbo, ‘under the word’. If your citation refers to multiple entries, indicate this by typing s.vv. instead, then listing the entries. Note that the s.v. is placed at the very end for print sources, but for online sources, it is followed by the “last modified”date and the URL.

Particularly well-known and reliable reference works, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, need not appear in the bibliography at all, but can be cited only in the notes. These citations only require the name of the work, the edition/year, and the entry in question:

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N:            1. Gail Edwards, "Regulating Children's Print Culture in Postwar Canada" (presentation, Biennial Conference of the Canadian History of Education Association, Saskatoon, SK, October 23–26, 2014).

B:    Edwards, Gail. "Regulating Children's Print Culture in Postwar Canada." Presentation at the Biennial              Conference of the Canadian History of Education Association, Saskatoon, SK, October 23–26, 2014.

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Place this part in your bibliography or reference list at the end of your assignment.

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Place this part right after the quote or reference to the source in your assignment.

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Author(s) Last name, First name, and remaining authors’ First names Last names. "Title of Paper." Paper presented at Conference name, Location, Month Year of conference. URL.   

Balado, Félix. "On the Shannon Capacity of DNA Data Embedding." Paper presented at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Dallas, TX, March 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495437 .

In-Text Citation:  Use a superscript number (like this: ¹) in the text at the place where you are indicating that you are citing from a source.

Felix Balado, at the 2010 Conference of the IEEE, suggested that the Shannon capacity of DNA data embedding has been greatly underestimated.³

# Author(s) First Name, Last name, and remaining authors’ First names Last names, "Title of Paper" (Conference paper/lecture, Conference name, Location, Month Day, Year of conference/lecture/paper). URL.

3. Félix Balado, "On the Shannon Capacity of DNA Data Embedding" (Conference paper, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Dallas, TX, March 14, 2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495437 .

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As there are no directions given in Chicago author-date for conference papers, these instructions have been adapted from the notes-bibliography style.

A paper included in the published proceedings of a meeting may be treated like a book chapter. If published in a journal, it is treated as an article.

Details of the sponsorship, location, and date of the meeting at which a speech was given or a paper, slides, or poster presented follow the title. This information is put in parentheses in a note but not in a bibliography. If the information is available online, include a URL.

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Chicago Referencing – Citing a Conference Paper (Footnotes)

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Conference proceedings are a great resource for students. And since academics attend conferences to discuss cutting-edge research , proceedings often include exciting new ideas.

But how do you cite a conference paper? In this post, we explain this using Chicago footnote referencing.

Footnote Citations

In Chicago referencing, always give full publication information in the first footnote citation . For a published conference paper, this includes:

n. Author’s Name, “Paper Title,” in Title of Proceedings , ed. Editor Name(s) (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), page number(s) for cited section.

In practice, then, the first citation of a conference paper would look like this:

1. Bill Riker, “Innovations in Seating,” in Proceedings of the Third Annual Behavioral Adaptations for Interstellar Travel Conference , ed. Jonathan Frakes (Santa Monica, CA: TNG Inc., 1987), 184.

The format differs slightly for an unpublished paper (e.g., one that you saw presented in person). This is quite rare, but if you need to cite one, you need to include the following information in the first footnote:

n. Author’s Name, “Paper Title” (paper presented at Name, Location and Date of Conference), page numbers (if relevant).

An unpublished paper would therefore be presented like this:

2. Deanna Troi, “Feeling Change: Design Guided by Empathy” (paper presented at The International Conference of Feeling, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, June 20-22 1992, 21.

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For repeat citations of a paper, you can use a shortened footnote format .

Bibliography

The information to include in your bibliography for a conference paper is roughly the same as in the first footnote. However, there are a few differences. For a published paper, the format is:

Surname, First Name. “Paper Title.” In Title of Proceedings , edited by Editor Name(s), page range. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.

For an unpublished conference paper, meanwhile, the format is:

Surname, First Name. “Paper Title.” Paper presented at Name, Location and Date of Conference.

In practice, then, we would list a published and an unpublished conference paper as follows:

Riker, Bill. “Innovations in Seating.” In Proceedings of the Third Annual Behavioral Adaptations for Interstellar Travel Conference , edited by Jonathan Frakes, 180-201. Santa Monica, CA: TNG Inc., 1987.

Troi, Deanna. “Feeling Change: Design Guided by Empathy.” Paper presented at The International Conference of Feeling, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, June 20-22 1992.

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How to Cite a PowerPoint Presentation in APA, MLA or Chicago

Let’s be honest: Sometimes the best information for a paper comes straight from a professor’s PowerPoint presentation. But did you know that source needs to be cited?

Whether you’re making use of your instructor’s lecture materials or pulling information from a Powerpoint found online, you need to make sure to cite your sources if you use information from it in a project or paper.

Here’s a run -t hrough of everything this page includes:  

• Cite a PowerPoint Presentation in MLA format
• Cite a PowerPoint Presentation in APA format
• Cite a PowerPoint Presentation in Chicago Style

By now, you’re probably familiar with how to cite websites, books or journal articles, but not as knowledgeable about how to cite a Powerpoint presentation. In actuality, citing PowerPoint presentations aren’t all that different from citing written materials, so don’t let yourself be phased! It’s not too hard and compiling an MLA works cited or APA reference page doesn’t take too long—each one should take just a few minutes to create.

To help you with the process, we’ve put together a handy guide demonstrating how to cite a PowerPoint presentation in three commonly used citation styles: MLA, APA and Chicago.

Let’s start by looking for basic information you’ll need for the citation.

Information you may need to cite a PowerPoint Presentation:

• Author or authors of the presentation
• Presentation title
• Date of publication/presentation
• Place of publication/where the presentation was given
• URL (if used to locate the presentation)

Cite a PowerPoint Presentation in MLA format:

MLA format citation structure:

Author Last Name, First Name. Presentation Title. Month Year, URL. PowerPoint Presentation.

Example citation :

Park, Lisa. Effective Working Teams . Jan. 2011, https://www.company.meetings/teams. PowerPoint Presentation.

In-text citation structure:

(Last Name)

Example in-text citation:

Cite a PowerPoint Presentation in APA format:  

APA reference structure:

Author or Presenter Last Name, Middle Initial. First Initial. (Date of publication). Title of presentation [PowerPoint presentation]. Conference Name, Location. URL

Example reference:

Park, L. (2011, March 24-28). Effective working teams [PowerPoint presentation]. Regional Dairy Workers National Conference, New York, NY, United States. https://www.company.meetings/teams

Cite a PowerPoint Presentation in Chicago Style:

Chicago citation structure:

Author Last Name, First Name. “Presentation Title.” Lecture, Location of Lecture, Month Day, Year.

Example citation:

Park, Lisa. “Effective Working Teams.” Lecture, The Plaza Hotel, New York, NY, January 11, 2011.

Troubleshooting

Solution #1: how to cite a powerpoint that has multiple authors..

For a presentation with multiple authors, list the authors alphabetically by last name for the full reference citation. The citation will list each author by Last Name, First Initial.

If the PowerPoint has just two authors, separate them with a comma and an ampersand (&). If the PowerPoint has more than two authors, list the authors separated by commas.

Reference examples:

Felner, D., & Nguy, A. (2021 April 10-12). The history of Claymation [Slideshow]. Animation Now, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Felner, D., Nguy, A., Becham, G. (2021 April 10-12). The history of Claymation [Slideshow]. Animation Now, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

For an in-text citation for two authors, give both surnames separated by an ampersand (&) followed by a comma and the year of publication or presentation.

For an in-text citation for three or more authors, list the first author’s surname followed by “et al.” followed by a comma and the year of publication or presentation.

In-text citation examples:

(Felner & Nguy, 2021)

(Felner et al., 2021)

For a PowerPoint with two presenters or authors, include both names in the full works-cited citation. The names need to be written as follows: First presenter’s Last Name, First Name, and then the second presenter’s First Name and Last Name.

For an in-text citation, simply list the surnames of both presenters.

In-text citation example:

(Nguy and Felner)

Work-cited entry example:

Nguy, Anna and Dominic Felner. The History of Claymation. Apr. 2021. PowerPoint Presentation.

For a PowerPoint with three or more presenters, only list one presenter’s name followed by a comma and “et al.”

For an in-text citation for three or more authors or presenters , list the surname given in the full works-cited citation followed by “et al.”

(Nguy et al.)

Nguy, Anna et al. The History of Claymation. Apr. 2021. PowerPoint Presentation.

Solution #2 How to cite a slideshow that wasn’t made with PowerPoint

If making a full works-cited citation for a slideshow that was made with another program other than PowerPoint, include the medium in brackets instead of PowerPoint.

If the presentation is not in PowerPoint, and you can’t determine what software was used, include the word “slideshow” in brackets in place of PowerPoint.

Nguy, A. (2021 April 10-12). The history of Claymation [Prezi presentation]. Animation Now, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Nguy, A. (2021 April 10-12). The history of Claymation [Slideshow]. Animation Now, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

The in-text citation will be formatted like any other APA in-text citation (author last name, year).

(Nguy, 2021)

At the end of your full works-cited citation, include the program the slideshow was made with, formatted as:  ______ Presentation.

If you are uncertain of the program used, end your citation with “slideshow” followed by a period. Nguy, Anna. The history of Claymation. Apr. 2021. Prezi Presentation. Nguy, Anna. The history of Claymation . Apr. 2021. Slideshow.

The in-text citation will be formatted like any other MLA in-text citation (author last name).

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To cite PowerPoint presentation slides, include the author name, year/date of presentation, the title, the source description, the website and/or university name, and the URL where the source can be found.

If the PowerPoint presentation is not accessible to the reader, cite the slides as personal communication.

If you want to cite a PowerPoint in MLA or APA style, you need to have basic information including the name of the author(s), title of the presentation, date and place of publication, and URL. For in-text citations, you need to include only the author name(s) in MLA style and author name(s) and year in APA style.  

APA in-text citations

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How to cite yourself, tips for undergraduate projects and research conference (uprc) presenters.

Adding your conference presentation (poster session, oral presentation, etc.) to your CV and/or ePortfolio is a great way to share your work with potential employers, program directors, scholarship committees, and more. Consider adding a section called “Presentations and Publications” or “Accepted Papers” or “Research Projects.” You’ll want to format it in the citation or reference style used in your discipline or area of study.

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APA Style guidelines for a conference presentation

APA Style (7 th Edition) is used by Psychology, Education, some Sciences disciplines like Biology, and more. APA offers guidance for citing conference presentations on the APA Style website .

Order of elements for APA conference presentation reference

Author(s). (Year, Month and Date(s) of conference). Presentation title in italicized font [Description of presentation i.e. [Conference session] or [Paper presentation] or [Poster session] ]. Conference name, Conference location. Link to presentation if available.

Sample APA conference presentation reference

Dwyer, J., & Scheelke, A. (2023, March 15-18). Questions of curiosity: Community college students’ non-classroom research ideas [Poster session]. ACRL 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. https://libguides.slcc.edu/ACRL23

Sample APA UPRC presentation reference (update author(s), presentation title, presentation type, and link for your presentation)

Dwyer, J., & Scheelke, A. (2023, April 18). Questions of curiosity: Community college students’ non-classroom research ideas [Poster session]. Salt Lake Community College Second Annual Undergraduate Projects and Research Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, United States. https://libguides.slcc.edu/ACRL23

MLA Works Cited guidelines for a conference presentation

MLA 9 th Edition is primarily used by Humanities. They do not have clear guidelines for citing conference presentations. SLCC Librarians advise including a presentation link when available, but this information may not align directly with MLA.

Order of elements for MLA conference presentation reference

Author(s). “Presentation title in quotation marks.” Conference name, Conference/Presentation date, Conference location. Link to presentation if available.

Sample MLA conference presentation works cited reference

Dwyer, Jamie, and Amy Scheelke. “Questions of Curiosity: Community College Students’ Non-classroom Research Ideas.” ACRL 2023, 17 Mar. 2023, Pittsburgh, PA. https://libguides.slcc.edu/ACRL23

Sample MLA UPRC presentation works cited reference (update author(s), presentation title, and link for your presentation)

Dwyer, Jamie, and Amy Scheelke. “Questions of Curiosity: Community College Students’ Non-classroom Research Ideas.” Salt Lake Community College Second Annual Undergraduate Projects and Research Conference, 18 Apr. 2023, Salt Lake City, UT. https://libguides.slcc.edu/ACRL23

Citing a conference presentation in Chicago/Turabian Style

Chicago/Turabian Style, 17th Edition, is often used by History, Business, and Fine Arts disciplines. Guidelines for citing  “Lectures and papers or posters presented at meetings” in a bibliography can be found in  The Chicago Manual of Style's  section 4.217.

Order of elements for Chicago conference presentation reference

Author(s). “Presentation title in quotation marks.” Poster/Paper/Lecture presented at Conference name, Conference location, Conference month and year . Link to presentation if available.

Sample Chicago conference presentation bibliography reference

Dwyer, Jamie, and Amy Scheelke. “Questions of Curiosity: Community College Students’ Non-classroom Research Ideas.” Poster presented at ACRL 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2023. https://libguides.slcc.edu/ACRL23

Sample Chicago UPRC presentation bibliography reference (update author(s), presentation title, presentation type, and link for your presentation)

Dwyer, Jamie, and Amy Scheelke. “Questions of Curiosity: Community College Students’ Non-classroom Research Ideas.” Poster presented at the Salt Lake Community College Second Annual Undergraduate Projects and Research Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, April 2023. https://libguides.slcc.edu/ACRL23

Citing a conference presentation in IEEE Style

IEEE Style, from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is used in Engineering fields and Computer Science. Guidance for citing a paper presented at a conference can be found in the full IEEE Reference Guide . SLCC Librarians advise including a presentation link when available. If it is not, omit "[Online]." and URL elements of reference.

Order of elements for IEEE conference paper reference

Author(s). "Presentation title in quotation marks,"   presented at the Abbreviated Name of Conference, City of Conference, State, Country, Month and day(s), Year. [Online, if copy is available digitally, otherwise omit]. Available: URL

Sample IEEE conference presentation reference

J. Dwyer and A. Scheelke. "Questions of curiosity: Community college students' non-classroom research ideas," presented at ACRL 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. March 15-18, 2023. [Online]. Available:  https://libguides.slcc.edu/ACRL23

Sample IEEE UPRC presentation reference (update author(s), presentation title, and link for your presentation)

J. Dwyer and A. Scheelke. "Questions of curiosity: Community college students' non-classroom research ideas," presented at  Salt Lake Community College 2nd Annu. Undergraduate Projects and Res. Conf., Salt Lake City, UT, USA. April 18, 2023.  [Online]. Available:  https://libguides.slcc.edu/ACRL23

Citing a conference presentation in CSE Style

CSE 8th Edition, also referred to as Scientific Style and Format , is used for natural sciences, including Biology. CSE provides guidelines for conference presentations and poster sessions as unpublished materials.

Order of elements for CSE poster session or presentation reference

Author(s). Date of presentation. Title of presentation. Poster session / Paper presented at: Title or theme of conference. Name of conference or institution; Location.

Sample CSE poster session reference

Dwyer J, Scheelke A. 2023 March 17. Questions of Curiosity: Community College Students’ Non-classroom Research Ideas. Poster session presented at: Forging the future. ACRL 2023; Pittsburgh, PA.

Sample CSE UPRC poster session reference (update author(s), poster title, type of presentation (e.g., Poster session or Paper)

Dwyer J, Scheelke A. 2023 April 18. Questions of Curiosity: Community College Students’ Non-classroom Research Ideas. Poster session presented at: Second Annual Undergraduate Projects and Research Conference.  Salt Lake Community College;  Salt Lake City, UT.

Citing a conference presentation in other styles

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• ACS Style: Quick Guide ACS was created by the American Chemical Society and is used for Chemistry. Follow the guidelines for "Conferences."
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How to cite a conference paper or conference proceeding varies depending on how the paper/proceeding was made available and the style manual required by each journal or discipline. There is no such thing as a separate style guide just for conference papers.

• Conference papers can be published as part of a proceedings volume,
• Proceedings can be published in special issues of association journals (this is especially like to happen for larger associations that sponsor a conference if the association also publishes a professional journal),
• Publishers may acquire “selected papers” from a conference and publish them together as a book – often with a unique title and a note that they are reprints of some of the papers presented at x conference,
• Conference organizers may make proceedings/papers freely available on the Internet,
• Authors may make text or presentation files available on their personal/professional web page.

Typically, if a researcher is citing something from a conference, it is a specific paper or presentation rather than the entire conference proceeding.

CSE, ACS, APA, IEEE, and Chicago Manual of Style all give instructions for how to cite conference papers. All of them agree on some basic principles:

If the paper is published in a journal, cite it as a journal article

If the paper is published in a book, cite it similar to a book chapter

If citing the whole proceeding, cite it similar to a book

If the proceeding has a unique title, include that as well as the name of the conference.

All style manuals vary on specific details to include when citing an unpublished conference paper or presentation; unfortunately, very few style manuals include the conference name and location if published as a book or a journal article.

Differences for specific style manuals

ACS Style – does not include the title of the paper itself or the page numbers.

APA – uses only author initials, not full names – only the first word in the title is capitalized (unless it includes proper nouns)

Chicago Manual of Style – the main differences from APA are that the title of the presentation/paper is given in “quotes” – the title words are all capitalized properly – and the author names are spelled out in full rather than abbreviated.

Book chapter format ( ACS Style Guide , 3 rd ed., 2006, p.307-309):

Garrone, E.; Ugliengo, P. In Structure and Reactivity of Surfaces , Proceedings of the European Conference, Trieste, Italy, Sept 13-20, 1988; Zecchina, A., Cost, G., Morterra, C., Eds.; Elsevier: Amsterdam, 1988.

Book chapter format ( Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association , 6 th Ed., 2009, section 7.04):

Morrison, R. S., Cronin, G. M., Hemsworth, P. H. (2011, November). Sow housing in Australia – current Australian welfare research and future directions. In R. J. van Barneveld (Ed.), Manipulating pig production XIII (pp.219-238). Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA), Adelaide, Australia. Werribee. Australia: Australian Pig Science Association.

Unpublished presentation ( Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association , 6 th Ed., 2009, section 7.04):

Liu, S. (2005, May). Defending against business crises with the help of intelligent agent based early warning solutions. Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Miami, FL. Abstract retrieved from http://www.iceis.org/iceis2005/abstracts_2005.htm

Unpublished presentation (Chicago Manual of Style, 16 th edition, 2009, 14.226):

Valle, Jose J. and John R. Eyler. “An FT-ICR Free Electron Laser User Facility for Determination of IRMPD Spectra of Gas-Phase Ions.” Paper presented at the 51 st ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Montreal, Canada, June 8-12, 2003.

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• Chapter in Book
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• US Constitution or Treaty
• State or Local Govt Document
• Court Decision
• Author or Editor
• Publisher & Date
• General Format

  Oral Presentation

 Chicago Manual 14.217

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• Paper Presentation
• Poster Presentation

  Lecture

Notes-Bibliography Style

       1st Footnote or Endnote            1. Gregory R. Crane, "Contextualizing Early Modern Religion in a Digital        World" (lecture, Newberry Library, Chicago, September 16, 2011).      

       Bibliography        Crane, Gregory R. "Contextualizing Early Modern Religion in a Digital World."              Lecture, Newberry Library, Chicago, September 16, 2011.

Author-Date Style

       1st Parenthetical Note        (Crane 2011)

       Reference List        Crane, Gregory R. 2011. "Contextualizing Early Modern Religion in a Digital              World." Lecture, Newberry Library, Chicago, September 16. 

    Paper Presentation

       1st Footnote or Endnote            15. Carole Pateman, "Participatory Democracy Revisited," (presidential        address, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,        Seattle, September 1, 2011).

       Bibliography               Pateman, Carole. "Participatory Democracy Revisited." Presidential address,            Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle,            September 1, 2011.

       1st Parenthetical Note        (Pateman 2011)

       Reference List        Pateman, Carole. 2011. "Participatory Democracy Revisited." Presidential            address, annual, meeting of the American Political Science Association,            Seattle, September 1.

   Poster Presentation

       1st Footnote or Endnote            1. Hannah Rohde, Roger Levy, and Andrew Kehler, "Implicit Causality Biases        Influence Relative Clause Attachment." (poster, 21st CUNY Conference on         Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2008), http://idiom.ucsd.edu        /~rlevy/papers/cuny2008/rohde-levy-kehler-2008-cuny .pdf.

       Bibliography               Rohde, Hannah, Roger Levy, and Andrew Kehler. "Implicit Causality Biases            Influence Relative Clause Attachment." Poster presented at the 21st CUNY            Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2008.            http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~rlevy/papers/cuny2008/rohde-levy-kehler-2008-cuny            .pdf.

       1st Parenthetical Note        ( Rohde, Levy, and Kehler 2008)

       Reference List        Rohde, Hannah, Roger Levy, and Andrew Kehler. 2008. "Implicit Causality            Biases Influence Relative Clause Attachment." Poster presented at the 21st            CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC, March.            http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~rlevy/papers/cuny2008/rohde-levy-kehler-2008-cuny            .pdf.

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Conference paper: how to cite in Chicago Style – notes and bibliography (17th ed.)?

Create a spot-on reference in chicago 17 and 16, general rules.

The Chicago Manual of Style considers a paper published in conference proceedings as a chapter of an edited book , due to which quite similar reference patterns are used for both types of sources.

Template of reference in a bibliography:

Author . " Paper Title ." In Conference Proceedings Title , edited by Editor , pages . City of publication : Publisher , year .

Template of full note:

Author , " Paper Title ," in Conference Proceedings Title , ed. Editor  ( City of publication : Publisher , year ), number of the cited page .

Template of short note:

Author , " Paper Title ," number of the cited page .

For a conference paper published online, add the URL address at the end of the reference; if this is the case, also include the date when the abstract was last viewed if the date of publication is unknown.

If you need to cite the conference proceedings as a whole and not a single paper therein, use the form for referencing a book on our website's homepage .

Examples of references in a bibliography

Sinnott, Richard   O., Donghan Yang, Xueyang Ding, and Zhenyuan Ye. "Poisonous Spider Recognition through Deep Learning." In  ACSW '20: Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference , article 14. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373017.3373031 .

Examples of notes

1. Richard   O. Sinnott et al., "Poisonous Spider Recognition through Deep Learning," in  ACSW '20: Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference (New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020), 5, article 14, https://doi.org/10.1145/3373017.3373031 .

2. Sinnott et al., "Poisonous Spider Recognition," 5.

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Politics | Activists to protest ‘with or without permits’ when DNC arrives in Chicago this summer

Progressive activist groups from across the country are preparing to protest outside the Democratic National Convention “with or without permits” come August.

Coalition leaders have attested their right to be within “sight and sound” of the convention’s center stage at the United Center, citing First Amendment rights in a federal lawsuit filed last month. On Saturday, leaders reaffirmed their commitment to be heard outside the DNC, despite the city’s denial of protest permits closer to the convention’s site.

A couple of hundred people representing 78 activist organizations gathered Saturday for a day-long “working conference” hosted by the March on the DNC coalition to organize fundraising, communications and logistics for the months ahead before top Democratic politicians arrive in Chicago. While support for a ceasefire in Palestine is the unifying cause, the coalition includes representatives from dozens of causes, including reproductive rights, labor rights, and immigrant and undocumented persons rights.

“We’ll be marching with or without permits. This DNC is the most important one since 1968, also in Chicago when Vietnam War protesters and the black liberation movement organized mass demonstrations that were violently repressed,” said Hatem Abudayyeh, executive director of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, at a coalition conference Saturday on the Near West Side to organize protest efforts. “The march on the DNC will be the largest mobilization for Palestine in the history of the city.”

The city has repeatedly argued in court that Chicago does not have enough police to protect the parade, keep protesters in check and regulate traffic, records show. As the Chicago Department of Transportation denied each protest permit, it offered each applicant the same alternate route: a 2-block march up a tree-lined stretch of Columbus Drive in the middle of Grant Park from Roosevelt Road to Jackson Drive — which demonstrators have rejected, as the site is nearly four miles away from the convention’s headquarters.

Organizers have planned two alternative protests on the Near West Side, one at Union Park on Aug. 19 and another near Addams Park on Aug. 22.

With pressure between activists and the city mounting, organizers are encouraging supporters to show up in large numbers in August to make crowds harder to disperse.

“If the people in this room want to make sure that we get as close as possible to Biden, what we need to do is bring as many people as possible because then it’s gonna be hard to keep us from being able to get close to them,” said Meredith Aby, a lead organizer with the Minnesota Anti-War Committee, addressing a packed room of coalition members.

Even with the scheduled alternative protests, organizers say they are confident in winning the federal lawsuit and still set on obtaining city permits through increased pressure on Mayor Brandon Johnson, who last month affirmed his commitment to allow free speech demonstrations.

“We know that he’s a community organizer and he came from the movement,” Abudayyeh said of Johnson. “So we’re asking him and his administration directly to intercede here and to make sure that we get the permits to march within sight and sound of the United Center.”

“And because he’s a community organizer, he knows that he can also be a target of ours. A respectful target of ours, but we will ask him and we will continue to ask him and we will continue to press him and his office to make sure that they facilitate these marches and protests as well,” he added.

Organizers passed around a petition addressed to CDOT that called on attendees to leave voicemails at the mayor’s office.

Abudayyeh, a lead organizer behind the more than 20 mass pro-Palestinian movements since October, said the coalition could see numbers up into the hundreds of thousands, as they await word of more groups who will join. For instance, one group in the coalition, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, has upwards of 30,000 members alone.

A sneak peek of the coalition’s organizing efforts could come in July, when the Republican National Committee sets up shop for its national convention in Milwaukee, just 90 miles north of Chicago.

“It’s right down the block…I’m sure the majority of the organizations that are here, definitely, the leadership of our coalition is going to be mobilizing for that as well,” Abudayyeh said. ” But I can’t imagine that the RNC mobilization is going to be even close to the DNC.”

With the city set to receive $75 million in federal funding for DNC security, federal authorities are planning a security perimeter around the United Center while top Chicago police officials responsible for security say planning and training are long underway. The training will focus on “constitutional policing,” police said.

On Friday, a coalition of the community groups that triggered the ongoing federal consent decree over Chicago’s policing practices asked the judge overseeing the agreement to block the police department from implementing a new mass arrest policy drafted in preparation for August’s convention.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois and other free speech groups argue the new proposed policy “eviscerates protections required by the First Amendment, the Consent Decree, and CPD’s existing First Amendment policy to protect people engaged in First Amendment expression and activity.”

The groups argue that the new proposal is overly broad, fails to make proper accommodations for people with disabilities and non-English speakers, and marks a step back from a First Amendment policy that was negotiated after the “violent and unconstitutional response” to the 2020 protests over the police killing of George Floyd, according to the filing.

Among other issues, the proposed policy fails to distinguish between different types of gatherings and which ones are constitutionally protected, the filing states.

The groups have asked Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer to intervene swiftly because “CPD officers are already being trained on the infirm policy for the DNC.”

“The mass arrest policy must be brought into compliance with the Consent Decree and the First Amendment with enough time to train thousands of CPD officers and supervisors by the August DNC,” the filing states.

The groups say city officials—who did not discuss the proposed policy with the coalition before its Feb. 9 release for public comment—have not made themselves available to meet about the issue until the week of April 22. That’s six weeks after the groups initially raised issues with the policy in a March 13 letter to Pallmeyer.

The coalition is asking Pallmeyer to halt any training on the proposed policy, order the Police Department to train officers on the agreed policy, and allow the coalition to attend training sessions.

A police spokeswoman declined to comment, citing the pending litigation.

The Tribune’s Dan Petrella contributed to this report

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