The exact format of references to conference papers is dependent upon whether the conference paper is published or unpublished, if it has a DOI, and how it is available (via a database, freely available on the internet, or in print). A paper included in published conference proceedings is treated like a chapter in a book. If published in a journal, it is treated as an article.
The elements common to all references to a conference paper are:
Author Name
Title
Type of Paper
Conference Details
Database Name
DOI or URL
The following is the general format of a reference to an online conference paper. Include the DOI if available, or a URL. For conference papers retrieved from a commercial database or a large collection, include the database or the collection name.
See general rules for conference papers for more details.
... (Author's Last Name Page/s cited) ...
... (Rohde et al. 2) ...
... (Agarwal and Singh 33) ...
First Author's Last Name, First Name, Other Authors' First Name, Last Name. "Title: Subtitle." Type of paper presented at Conference Name, Location, Date, URL.
Rohde, Hannah, et al. “Implicit Causality Biases Influence Relative Clause Attachment.” Poster presented at the 21st CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, NC, 13-15 Mar. 2008. idiom.ucsd.edu/~rlevy/papers/cuny2008/rohde-levy-kehler-2008-cuny.pdf.
Agarwal, Naman, and Karan Singh. “The Price of Differential Privacy for Online Learning.” Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning, Sydney, Australia, 6-11 August 2017, edited by Doina Precu and Yee Whye Teh. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, vol. 70, 2017, pp. 32-40, proceedings.mlr.press/v70/agarwal17a/agarwal17a.pdf.
The following is the general format of a reference to a freestanding conference paper in print. A paper included in the published conference proceedings is treated like a chapter in a book. If published in a journal, it is treated as an article.
See general rules for conference papers for more details.
... (Author's Last Name Page/s cited) ...
... (Teplin et al. 5) ...
First Author's Last Name, First Name, Other Authors' First Name, Last Name. "Title: Subtitle." Type of paper presented at Conference Name, Location, Date.
Teplin, Linda A., et al. “Early Violent Death in Delinquent Youth: A Prospective Longitudinal Study.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, La Jolla, CA, 3-6 Mar. 2005.