Conference paper: how to cite in Harvard style?

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General rules

Within the Harvard referencing system, a conference paper published in conference proceedings is treated as a chapter of an edited book, due to which the templates for bibliographic references are almost the same as for a book chapter.

In this case, the title of the conference proceedings is considered as the general book title; the difference from a book chapter is that the title of the proceedings also includes the date and place of the conference.

Reference template:

Author(s), (year). Paper title. In: Editor(s), ed(s). Conference title, conference date, Conference place. City of publication: Publisher. p(p). page(s).

For a conference abstract available online, use the following reference template:

Author(s), (year). Paper title. In: Editor(s), ed(s). Conference title, conference date, Conference place [online]. City of publication: Publisher. p(p). page(s). [Viewed date viewed]. Available from: doi: DOI

If the publication does not have a DOI and is located at an ordinary URL address, modify the corresponding reference element as follows:

Available from: URL

Attention:

• If no names of editors are given in the conference proceedings, the corresponding element is omitted from the reference.
• The city and country are given in the 'Conference place' element.
• The names of editors in the reference are indicated with the initials before the last name. For details, see the article on the principles of indicating authors' names according to the Harvard citation style.
• See this article for the differences between indicating a URL and a DOI.

Examples in a list of references

Bizzoni, Y., Senaldi, M. S. G. and Lenci, A., (2017). Deep-learning the ropes: modeling idiomaticity with neural networks. In: R. Basili, M. Nissim and G. Satta, eds. Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2017, 11–12 December 2017, Rome, Italy [online]. Torino: Accademia University Press. pp. 36–41. [Viewed 12 January 2021]. Available from: doi: 10.4000/books.aaccademia.2314

Türkmen, R., (2016). B1 level undergraduate EFL students’ acceptance of Moodle technology. In: F. Kılıçkaya, ed. The 5th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture, 12 May 2016, Burdur, Turkey [online]. Burdur: Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. p. 11. [Viewed 12 January 2021]. Available from: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED569939.pdf