To be made up of:
- Author of paper.
- Year of publication (in round brackets).
- Title of paper (in single quotation marks).
- Title of conference: subtitle (in italics).
- Location and date of conference.
- Place of publication: publisher.
- Page references for the paper.
Placing that notification in the title element of the reference clarifies that the specific session—but not the entire conference—was canceled. If the conference proceeds, and your session was held despite your absence, create the reference as usual, including your name as originally planned.
APA Referencing Guide — Unpublished conference paper or poster
- Author(s) (family name, comma followed by initials, with full stop and space after each initial)
- (Date of publication). (
- Title. (
- Paper/ poster presented at the.
- Title, (title of conference, followed by comma)
- Location. (
Information you may need to cite a PowerPoint Presentation:
- Author or authors of the presentation.
- Presentation title.
- Date of publication/presentation.
- Place of publication/where the presentation was given.
- URL (if used to locate the presentation)
PowerPoint Slideshow APA CitationWhile citing lectures, meeting notes, or other slideshow presentations, follow the standard APA 7 author/date citation format. State the author, date, and title of the presentation. Then, within brackets, place the format, such as [PowerPoint slides] or [Prezi slideshow presentation].
Include the volume and issue if available in the format Title, Volume Number(Issue). Author, A. A. (Year, Month XX). Title of article. Newspaper Title, pages.
Include the presentation title in italics. List the name and date of the conference. Provide examples of the presentation topic. List related publications with presentations.
Regardless of the style you follow, elements for the citation will be the same: Author name(s), title of the poster, title of the conference/meeting, date, location. The conference may also have a descriptive “name” as well as a title.
Minutes of meetings
- Author.
- Year of meeting.
- Item being referenced (in single quotation marks).
- Title (in italics).
- Date of meeting (in italics).
- Organisation.
- Location of meeting.
For a proceedings paper: authors (last name first, then initials), "paper title" (in quotes), proceedings volume name and/or number, page numbers (year). [3] Van Derlofske, J. F., "Computer modeling of LED light pipe systems for uniform display illumination," Proc. SPIE 4445, 119-129 (2001).
In running text, use roman type, capitalize, and use quotation marks around the titles of lectures, book chapters, articles, papers and other conference presentations, blog entries, most poems, speeches, songs and other shorter musical compositions, and TV or radio show episodes.
Definition. A conference proceeding is the published record of a conference, congress, symposium, or other meeting sponsored by a society or association, usually but not necessarily including abstracts or reports of papers presented by the participants.