• Basic format to reference a published conference or proceedings paper in print format
• Basic format to reference a published conference or proceedings paper in electronic format
• Referencing conference proceedings: Examples
• Conference proceeding abbreviations

• IEEE Referencing
• Citing sources in the text
• Resources used in the creation of this guide
• The Reference List
• Single citation in the text
• Multiple citations in the text
• How to use quotes in IEEE
• Paraphrasing in IEEE
• Secondary sources
• Month abbreviations
• Word abbreviations in references
• Common IEEE abbreviations and acronyms
• Page numbers
• Citing the same source multiple times
• Place of publication
• DOI in IEEE

When citing conference proceedings, the common rule is to list the author(s), title, name and location (if provided) of the conference and use any standard abbreviations where necessary.

Use the following abbreviated standard conference terms in their names. In conference names, omit most articles and prepositions such as ‘of the’ and ‘on’, for example, 4th International Conference on Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics becomes 4th Int. Conf. Advances Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics.

 For further details, refer to the ‘Published Conference Proceedings’ section of the IEEE Editorial Style Manual (2016) (p. 36).

[#]     Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of paper,” in Abbrev. Title of Conf. Proceedings, Place of Conference/Publication, (vol., no. if available), Year (only if not already stated in the title), pp. xxx–xxx.

Referencing elements to cite:

• [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
• Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
• Title of the paper in lower case, in double quotation marks
• Abbreviated name of conference following the standard conference terms. Refer Conference name abbreviations box on this page
• Place of publication. Refer to Place of publication for information on the correct format of locations
• Include volume and issue numbers if available.
• Year of publication
• Page number(s), cited as p. for a single page or pp. for multiple pages.

[1]    S. r. Ayyubi, Y. Miao, and H. Shi, "Automating standalone smoke alarms for early remote notifications," in 13th Intern. Conf. on Cont. Automa. Robotics & Vision (ICARCV), Marina Bay Sands Singapore, Dec. 2014, pp. 675–680.

Note: See Examples box below for 'unpublished paper presented at a conference' and 'unpublished paper' examples.

[#]    Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of paper,” in Abbrev. Name of Conf. Proceedings, Place of Conference/Publication, (vol., no. if available), Year (only if not stated in the title), pp. xxx–xxx. Accessed on: Month. Day, Year. [Online]. Available: site/path/file (doi:xxxxx or URL) 

Referencing elements to cite:

• [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
• Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
• Title of the paper in lower case, in double quotation marks
• Abbreviated name of conference following the standard conference terms.  Refer Conference name abbreviations box on this page
• Year of publication
• Page number(s), cited as p. for a single page or pp. for multiple pages.
• [online]
• Available: site/path/file location, which can be a DOI, or a full URL
• Accessed on: Month, Day, Year. Refer to the Abbreviated month section for further information

[2]     W. M. Brown, A. Semin, M. Hebenstreit, S. Khvostov, K. Raman, and S. J. Plimpton, "Increasing molecular dynamics simulation rates with an 8-fold increase in electrical power efficiency," in SC '16 Proc. of the Int. Conf. for High Perf. Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Article No. 8, Salt Lake City, Utah, IEEE Press Piscataway, November 13 - 18, 2016. Accessed on Feb. 10, 2017. [Online]. Available: ACM Digital Library