Citing a conference
Published February 3, 2021. Updated October 28, 2021.
To create a reference or citation for a conference, you will need to know basic information including the name of the author or organization, title of the conference, publication year, conference date, and place.
The templates and examples below will show you how to cite a conference in MLA style, APA style, Chicago style, and Harvard referencing style.
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Citing a conference in MLA style
In-text citation example:
(Faull)
Works cited entry example:
Faull, Jonathan. “The EU After Brexit.” Uncertain Destinations: The European Union at 60. EUSA Fifteenth Biennial Conference, 5 May 2017, Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay, Miami.
Citing a conference in APA style
In-text citation example:
(Faull, 2017)
Reference list entry example:
EUSA. (Ed.). (2017, May 4-6). Fifteenth Biennial Conference, Miami, FL: EUSA.
Citing a conference in Chicago style, notes-bibliography
Footnotes example:
Note
Fifteenth Biennial Conference
, 4–6 May 2017, ed. EUSA (Miami, FL: EUSA, 2017).
Bibliography entry example:
Fifteenth Biennial Conference, 4–6 May 2017. Edited by EUSA. Miami, FL: EUSA, 2017.
Citing a conference in Chicago style, author-date
In-text citation example:
(EUSA 2017)
Reference list entry example:
Fifteenth Biennial Conference, 4–6 May 2017. Edited by EUSA. Miami, FL: EUSA, 2017.
How to cite a conference in Harvard referencing style
In-text citation example:
(Chaudhuri and Salakhutdinov, 2019)
Reference list entry example:
Chaudhuri, K. and Salakhutdinov, R. (eds.) (2019) Proceedings of the 36th international conference on machine learning. Long Beach, California, 9—15 June. Available at: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/ (Accessed: 28 January 2021).
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If a source has both a DOI and a URL, include only the DOI and delete the URL.
To in-text cite a conference paper in APA, use the core required elements: the name(s) of the author(s) and the year of publication. The citation is similar to that of a journal article or a book chapter. The table below shows how to format the parenthetical in-text citation for a conference paper in APA.
1 author template & example:
(Author Surname, Year)
(Béres, 2016)
2 authors template & example:
(Author1 Surname & Author2 Surname, Year)
(Béres & Závecz, 2016)
3 authors template & example:
(Author1 Surname et al., Year)
(Béres et al., 2016)

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