Conference presentations often qualify to be included in research and should be referenced or cited properly when used as a source. However, conference presentations are typically thought of as “gray literature.” Gray literature is literature that has not been published in peer-reviewed journals.
Besides this, conference presentations are typically included in books, where each chapter is made up of a single presentation. Therefore, thai poses some challenges as to how they should be presented. More than that different reference styles have various instructions as to how to format conference presentations.
In this article, I provide a brief description of what conference presentations are and how they should be referenced in research.
What is a conference presentation?
A conference presentation is a formal presentation of your research in front of an audience of colleagues. It supports the discussion of your research by using easy-to-understand and articulated points and graphical presentations of data. Its main purpose is to act as a visual supplementation of your research.
A conference presentation rarely stands by itself. Instead, it has to be accompanied by a report that may be published as a book alongside other reports presented in the conference. Conferences play a major role in offering young scholars a chance to participate in formal research presentations for the first time.
How to reference conference presentations
The way conference representations are formatted in references depends on the academic style guide and how the conference presentation is published. In our case, we will look at two styles: APA and IEEE. According to Purdue Owl:
1. Referencing according to the APA
The 7th edition of the APA manual does not provide guidance on citing conference proceedings.
Therefore, you should use citation models that is based on an edited collection, which has a similar format.
Lastname, F. M., & Lastname, F. M. (Eds.). (Year). Title of Proceedings. Publisher. URL (if applicable)
This would look as follows:
Huang, S., Pierce, R., & Stamey, J. (Eds.). (2006). Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on the design of communication. ACM Digital Library. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1166324&picked=prox
2. Referencing according to IEEE
Here is the general format for the IEEE for an online paper:
Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s). (Date). Title. Presented at Abbreviated Conf. title. [Type of Medium]. Available: site/path/file
This would look like as follows:
J. Roberts and D. Fisher. (14-17 Dec. 2020). pReview: The artificially intelligent conference reviewer. Presented at the 19th IEEE Int. Conf. Mach. Learn. Appl. (ICMLA), Miami, FL, USA. [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9356281
The following is the general format for a published conference paper:
Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of paper,” presented at the Abbrev. Title of Conf., City of Conf., Abbrv. State, Country, Month and day(s), year, Paper number.
This would look like as follows:
T. Ali et al., "6.2 a 460mW 112Gb/s DSP-based transceiver with 38dB loss compensation for next-generation data centers in 7nm finFET technology", Proc. IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC), pp. 118-120, 2020.
Bear in mind, it would make sense to carefully follow the guidelines provided by the journal or conference to make sure that you are following the correct format. Even different journals within IEEE may have variations.
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