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APA 7th Referencing Style Guide

Published conference proceedings

If conference proceedings are published:

  • regularly (in a journal) - treat like a journal article
  • as a book - treat like a book or book chapter

 

Conference article in regularly published conference proceedings 

Herculano-Houzel, S., Collins, C. E., Wong, P., Kaas, J. H., & Lent, R. (2008). The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(34), 12593-12598. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0805417105
  • Use the journal article format
     

Conference proceedings published as a book

  • When citing the whole book, use the format for an edited book
  • When citing a paper from a proceeding book, use the format for a chapter of an edited book

Zegwaard, K. E., & Hoskyn, K. (Eds.). (2015). New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education 2015 conference proceedings: Refereed proceedings of the 18th New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education conference. New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education. https://www.nzace.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2015-wellington.pdf

 

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Conference contributions accessed online

Reference format

Use these formats for paper presentations, poster sessions, keynote addresses and symposium contributions. 

  • Describe the type after the title
  • Include all authors even if they are not present
  • Use the date(s) of the conference
  • Include the location
Author Date Title Conference information DOI or URL
Presenter, A & Presenter, B. (Year, Month dd-dd). Title of conference paper or poster [Type of contribution]. Conference Name, Location. https://doi.org/xxxx
https://xxxx
Contributor, A. & Contributor , B.

(Year, Month dd-dd).

(2020, January 30–February 1)

 Title of contribution. In C.C. Chairperson (Chair), Title of the Symposium [Symposium]. Conference Name, Location. https://doi.org/xxx
https://xxxx
  • Location: include city, state, province or territory, and country. Use abbreviations for U.S. or Australia states. For example, New York, NY, United States

 

Paper presentation

Mason, I. & Missingham, R. (2019, October 21–25).  Research libraries, data curation, and workflows [Paper presentation].  eResearch Australasia Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. https://bit.ly/2v1CjRg

Poster presentation

McGoudall, J., Durbin, P., Schlatter, T., McGale, M. & Jerabek, A. (2019, October 21–25). Dataverse 'Instrallation Personas': A UX concept adopted to enable the navigation of Dataverse installations, for the purpose of sharing ideas and technical experiences by the international community [Poster presentation]. eResearch Australasia Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Janet-McDougall-eRA2019_McDougall_Janet.pdf

Symposium contribution

Cochrane, T. & Narayan, V. (2019, February 14–15). Evaluation the CMALT cMOOC: An agile and scalable professional development framework. In R. Shekhawat (Chairs). Breakout session [Symposium]. Scholarship of Technology Enhanced Learning Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand. 

 

Find how to cite in text on the In-text citation page.