How to Cite a Conference Paper

Papers published in proceedings are cited like book chapters; the DOI or proceedings URL fills everything in. Examples for APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, AMA, ACS, Nature, ASA, APSA, OSCOLA, the Bluebook and AGLC4 are below, each produced by the generator itself.

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APA 7th edition

References entry

Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, Ł., & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30, 5998–6008.

In-text citation

(Vaswani et al., 2017)
MLA 9th edition

Works Cited entry

Vaswani, Ashish, et al. “Attention Is All You Need.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 30, 2017, pp. 5998–6008.

In-text citation

(Vaswani et al.)
Chicago 18th edition (notes and bibliography)

Bibliography entry

Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, et al. “Attention Is All You Need.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (2017): 5998–6008.

Footnote

Ashish Vaswani et al., “Attention Is All You Need,” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (2017): 5998–6008.

Later footnotes

Vaswani et al., “Attention Is All You Need.”
Chicago 18th edition (author-date)

References entry

Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, et al. 2017. “Attention Is All You Need.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30: 5998–6008.

In-text citation

(Vaswani et al. 2017)
Harvard (Cite Them Right)

Reference list entry

Vaswani, A. et al. (2017) ‘Attention is all you need’, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Curran Associates, pp. 5998–6008.

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(Vaswani et al., 2017)
IEEE

References entry

[1] A. Vaswani et al., “Attention is all you need,” in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Curran Associates, 2017, pp. 5998–6008.

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[1]
Vancouver (NLM)

References entry

1. Vaswani A, Shazeer N, Parmar N, Uszkoreit J, Jones L, Gomez AN, et al. Attention is all you need. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Curran Associates; 2017. p. 5998-6008.

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(1)
AMA 11th edition

References entry

1. Vaswani A, Shazeer N, Parmar N, et al. Attention is all you need. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Vol 30. Curran Associates; 2017:5998-6008.

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1
ACS

References entry

(1) Vaswani, A.; Shazeer, N.; Parmar, N.; Uszkoreit, J.; Jones, L.; Gomez, A. N.; Kaiser, Ł.; Polosukhin, I. Attention Is All You Need. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems; Curran Associates, 2017; Vol. 30, pp 5998–6008.

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1
Nature

References entry

1. Vaswani, A. et al. Attention is all you need. in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems vol. 30 5998–6008 (Curran Associates, 2017).

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1
ASA 7th edition

References entry

Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin. 2017. “Attention Is All You Need.” Pp. 5998–6008 in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Vol. 30. Curran Associates.

In-text citation

(Vaswani et al. 2017)
APSA

Reference List entry

Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin. 2017. “Attention Is All You Need.” In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Curran Associates, 5998–6008.

In-text citation

(Vaswani et al. 2017)
OSCOLA

Bibliography entry

Vaswani A and others, ‘Attention Is All You Need’ Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Curran Associates 2017)

Footnote

Ashish Vaswani and others, ‘Attention Is All You Need’ Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Curran Associates 2017).

Later footnotes

Vaswani and others (n 1).
Bluebook

Bibliography entry

Ashish Vaswani et al., Attention Is All You Need, 30 in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5998 (2017).

Footnote

Ashish Vaswani et al., Attention Is All You Need, 30 in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5998 (2017).

Later footnotes

Vaswani et al., supra note 1.
AGLC4

Bibliography entry

Vaswani, Ashish et al, ‘Attention Is All You Need’ (Conference Paper, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2017)

Footnote

Ashish Vaswani et al, ‘Attention Is All You Need’ (Conference Paper, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2017).

Later footnotes

Vaswani et al (n 1).

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