Conference paper or conference proceedings

If the conference paper is published in a journal, you should reference it as a journal article. If the proceedings have been published as a book, you should reference them following the guidance on this page.

The publisher of conference proceedings can usually be located either within the first couple of pages or the last page of the publication.  The publisher is often the organisation holding the conference. You may need to look at the organisation’s website to find out where their office is, which you will use as the place of publication. 

Print

Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Title of paper. In: Family name, INITIAL(S) (of editor if known). ed. Title of conference proceedings, date of conference, location of conference. Place of publication: Publisher, page number(s).

Example:

Robertson, J. 1986. The economics of local recovery. In: The other economic summit, 17/18 April 1986, Tokyo. London: The Other Economic Summit, pp.5-10.

Online

Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Title of paper. In: Family name, INITIAL(S) (of editor if known). ed. Title of conference proceedings, date of conference, location of conference. [Online]. Place of publication: Publisher, page number(s). [Date accessed]. Available from: DOI (or URL if no DOI available) 

Example:

Bonacin, R., Nabuca, O.F., and Pierozzi, I. 2014. Modeling the impacts of agriculture on water resources: semantic interoperability issues. In: Reddy, S.M. ed. 23rd IEEE International WETICE Conference, 23-25 June 2014, Parma. [Online]. Los Alamitos: CPS, pp.447-452. [Accessed 17 May 2017]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2014.17