How to Cite a Conference Paper

Papers presented at academic conferences and symposiums.

What You'll Need

Paper Title
Author(s)
Proceedings Title
Conference Name
Editor(s)
Date Published
Publisher
Location
Pages
DOI
URL

Note the conference name, location, and dates. Conference proceedings may have a DOI, ISBN, or be published as a journal special issue.

Example Citations

APA
Devlin, J., Chang, M.-W., Lee, K., & Toutanova, K. (2019). BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 4171-4186. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1423
In-text (Devlin et al., 2019)
MLA Handbook (in-text citations)
Devlin, Jacob, et al. “BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding”. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics [Minneapolis, Minnesota], 2019, pp. 4171-86, https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1423.
In-text (Devlin et al.)
CMOS 17e with Bluebook (notes and bibliography [14.19])
Devlin, Jacob, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, and Kristina Toutanova. “BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding”. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2019, 4171-86. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1423.
Footnote Jacob Devlin et al., “BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding”, Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2019, 4171-86, https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1423.

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