Conference paper: how to cite in Chicago Style – author-date (17th ed.)?

Create a spot-on reference in Chicago 18, 17 and 16

Select a source type:

Book Website Journal article Video (online)

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General rules

Both systems of Chicago Style (notes and bibliography and author-date) treat a conference paper published in conference proceedings as a chapter of a book, which is why the references for the two types of sources are quite similar. Use the following template to reference a conference abstract in a bibliography:

Author. Year of publication. "Paper Title." In Conference Proceedings Title, edited by Editor, pages. City of publication: Publisher.

The place and date of conference are not given in the reference.

For a conference paper available online, add the URL address at the end of the reference:

Author. Year of publication. "Paper Title." In Conference Proceedings Title, edited by Editor, pages. City of publication: Publisher. URL.

The date of access is given, if the date of publication is not stated in the source.

Example in a list of references

Sinnott, Richard O., Donghan Yang, Xueyang Ding, and Zhenyuan Ye. 2020. "Poisonous Spider Recognition through Deep Learning." In ACSW '20: Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, 14. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373017.3373031.