Use the following template or our APA Citation Generator to cite a conference proceedings. For help with other source types, like books, PDFs, or websites, check out our other guides. To have your reference list or bibliography automatically made for you, try our free citation generator.
Place this part in your bibliography or reference list at the end of your assignment.
Author Surname, Author Initial. (Year Published). Title. In Publication Title (p. Pages Used). City: Publisher. Retrieved from http://Website URL
Hasan, H., Harijan, K., Ahmed, V., & Ahmed, G. (2013). Solutions for Energy Crisis in Pakistan. In Solutions for Energy Crisis in Pakistan. Islamabad.
Place this part right after the quote or reference to the source in your assignment.
(Author Surname, Year Published)
Organised by the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and the Hanns Seidel Foundation, (HSF) Islamabad. (Hasan, Harijan, Ahmed & Ahmed, 2013)
To cite a conference proceeding within your text in APA style, use the surname of the authors(s) and year of the conference in parentheses. All listed authors should be included in your in-text citation, regardless of whether or not they were present at the conference. If there are two authors, include both surnames separated by an ampersand (&) in parenthetical citations. If there are more than two authors, included the surname of the first listed author followed by “et al.”
The templates and examples below show how to create an in-text citation for a conference proceeding in APA style.
Templates:
Parenthetical: (Presenter’s Last Name, year of conference)
Narrative: Presenter’s Last Name (year of conference)
Examples:
Parenthetical: (Fitzgerald, 1995)
Narrative: Fitzgerald… (1995).
To format a reference list entry for a conference proceeding in APA style, include the contributing author’s name(s), the date(s) of the full conference, the contribution’s title and contribution type in brackets, the conference’s name and location, and if applicable, a DOI or URL.
To help readers locate the source, include the full date of the conference. Add the label denoting the type of the contribution, such as conference session, paper presentation, poster presentation, in square brackets after the title.
Below are a template and an example for a reference entry for a conference session with three contributing authors.
Format
Contributor1’s Surname, F. M., Contributor2’s Surname, F.M., & Contributor3’s Surname, F.M. (Year, Month Day). Title of the contribution in sentence case [Contribution type]. Name of the Conference, Location. DOI or URL
Example
Bastian, M., Heymann, S., & Jacomy, M. (2009, May 17–20). Gephi: An open source software for exploring and manipulating networks [Conference session]. Third International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, San Jose, CA, United States. https://doi.org/10.12345/678
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