How to Cite a Conference Paper in Chicago

Papers published in proceedings are cited like book chapters; the DOI or proceedings URL fills everything in. This page follows Chicago 18th edition (notes and bibliography), 18th edition (2024).

Chicago format for a conference paper

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

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

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Vaswani et al., “Attention Is All You Need.”

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    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.

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