Council of Science Editors (CSE) Citation Style Guide

Entire conference proceedings

Editor name, editor. Title of Proceedings. Number and name of conference; date of conference; place of conference. Publisher; Year. DOI/URL

Anatomy of a citation

1. Editor(s): Formatted as last name and initials (no periods) and separated by commas, followed by comma "editor."
2. Proceedings title: Use sentence case.
3. Conference information: Begin with the number of the conference using an arabic ordinal number and the title of the conference in title case, followed by a semicolon, the inclusive dates of the conference (year-mo-day format), followed by semicolon, and location of the conference. For a conference in the U.S., Canada, or Australia, add the abbreviated state/province/territory after the city name (can omit country name).
4. Publisher
5. Year of publication
6. DOI/URL: DOI is preferred, otherwise try to use permalink or stable URL, if applicable.

Example

Sietz B et al, editors. Perfect your craft. 43rd National LOEX Library Instruction Conference; 2015 Apr 30–May 2; Denver, CO. LOEX Press, 2023.

Conference paper

Author name. Title of paper [conference paper]. In: Editor name, editors. Title of proceedings. Number and name of conference; date of conference; place of conference. Publisher; Year. Page(s). DOI/URL

Anatomy of a citation

1. Author name(s): Formatted as last name and initials (no periods) and separated by commas. Do not use & or "and" before the last author. For papers with more than 5 authors, list the first author followed by “et al.”
2. Paper title: Use sentence case.
3. Content designator: "conference paper" in brackets.
4. Editor(s): Formatted as last name and initials (no periods) and separated by commas, followed by comma "editor."
5. Proceedings title: Use sentence case.
6. Conference information: Begin with the number of the conference using an arabic ordinal number and the title of the conference in title case, followed by a semicolon, the inclusive dates of the conference (year-mo-day format), followed by semicolon, and location of the conference. For a conference in the U.S., Canada, or Australia, add the abbreviated state/province/territory after the city name (can omit country name).
7. Publisher
8. Year of publication
9. Page numbers: add the letter "p" followed by the inclusive page numbers for the location of the paper within the proceedings.
10. DOI/URL: DOI is preferred, otherwise try to use permalink or stable URL, if applicable.

Example

Machowski L, Marwala T. Nano version control and the repo as the next data structure in computer science and artificial intelligence [conference paper]. In: Conference proceedings: 2021 Ethics and Explainability for Responsible Data Science (EE-RDS). 1st Ethics and Explainability for Responsible Data Science; 2021 Oct 27–28; Johannesburg, South Africa. IEEE; 2022. p 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1109/EE-RDS53766.2021.9708575

Unpublished conference materials

Many times, posters and paper presentations are not formally published. In these cases, use the designations, "Paper presented at" or "Poster session presented at" instead of "In:" to connect author and title information with conference information.