How to Cite a Conference Paper in MLA

Papers published in proceedings are cited like book chapters; the DOI or proceedings URL fills everything in. This page follows MLA 9th edition, 9th edition (2021).

MLA format for a conference paper

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.

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(Vaswani et al.)

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    • Look for the proceedings title on the conference site or in the DOI record.

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    At minimum: author, date published, paper title, proceedings title. Look for the proceedings title on the conference site or in the DOI record.

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    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.)

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