Create a spot-on reference in Chicago 18, 17 and 16
General rules
The Chicago Manual of Style considers a paper published in conference proceedings as a chapter of an edited book, due to which quite similar reference patterns are used for both types of sources.
Template of reference in a bibliography:
Author. "Paper Title." In Conference Proceedings Title, edited by Editor, pages. City of publication: Publisher, year.
Template of full note:
Author, "Paper Title," in Conference Proceedings Title, ed. Editor (City of publication: Publisher, year), number of the cited page.
Template of short note:
Author, "Paper Title," number of the cited page.
For a conference paper published online, add the URL address at the end of the reference; if this is the case, also include the date when the abstract was last viewed if the date of publication is unknown.
If you need to cite the conference proceedings as a whole and not a single paper therein, use the form for referencing a book on our website's homepage.
Examples of references in a bibliography
Sinnott, Richard O., Donghan Yang, Xueyang Ding, and Zhenyuan Ye. "Poisonous Spider Recognition through Deep Learning." In ACSW '20: Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, article 14. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373017.3373031.
Examples of notes
1. Richard O. Sinnott et al., "Poisonous Spider Recognition through Deep Learning," in ACSW '20: Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference (New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020), 5, article 14, https://doi.org/10.1145/3373017.3373031.
2. Sinnott et al., "Poisonous Spider Recognition," 5.