How to Cite a Conference Paper in MLA 9th edition

Papers presented at academic conferences and symposiums.

Example in MLA 9th edition

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: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), edited by Jill Burstein et al., Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019, pp. 4171-86, https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1423.
In-text (Devlin et al.)

What MLA 9th edition includes

These are the details of the example above that the style prints, so they are the ones to collect for your own source.

  • Paper Title
  • Proceedings Title
  • Author(s)
  • Editor(s)
  • Publisher
  • Pages
  • Date Published
  • DOI

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

The formatting comes from the style's own file, so check the finer points against your guide. What to check by hand in MLA 9th edition.

A Conference Paper in other styles

APA 7th edition Chicago 18th edition (notes and bibliography) Harvard (Cite Them Right 12th edition) IEEE Vancouver

Other sources in MLA 9th edition

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