APA 6th - conference proceedings/presentations/posters

Format (Electronic)

Author. (Year of presentation, Month). Title of presentation. Paper presented at the meeting of name of conference or occasion, Location. Retrieved [or Abstract retrieved] from URL 

Format (Print)

Author. (Year of presentation, Month). Title of presentation. Paper presented at the meeting of name of conference or occasion, Location.

Example

Stuart, J., Pacheco, G., Hedges, M., & Morton, S. (2014, July). Monkey see, monkey do: How do parental socioeconomic shifts influence children’s cognitive outcomes? Paper presented at the meeting of the New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE) 55th Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://www.nzae.org.nz/event/nzae-conference-2014/conference-papers/

Chang-Richards, Y., Wilkinson, S., Seville, E., & Brunsdon, D. (2015, July). A systems approach to managing human resources in disaster recovery projects. Paper presented at the meeting of the 5th Annual International Conference on Building Resilience, Newcastle, Australia.  

Format (Electronic)

Author. (Year of presentation, Month). Title of presentation. Poster presented at meeting of name of conference or occasion, Location. Retrieved [or Abstract retrieved] from URL 

Format (Print)

Author. (Year of presentation, Month). Title of presentation. Poster presented at meeting of name of conference or occasion, Location.

Example

Magnusson, J., & Zaar, J. (2017, April). Improving information literacy instruction through reflection! Poster presented at the meeting of the Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC), Swansea, Wales. Retrieved from http://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-archive/lilac-2017-1#papersandposters

Doci, F., Eiliat, H., Gillard, K., Burton, S., Kustra, E., & Meadow, K. (2014, May). Teaching culture indicators: Valuing and enhancing quality teaching in higher education. Poster presented at the meeting of the Windsor-Oakland Eighth Annual Conference on Teaching & Learning: Empowering Students to Learn, Oakland University, Rochester, MI.

Wilcock, J. (2013, November). A co-citation network for biometrics. Poster presented at the meeting of the New Zealand Statistical Association Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand. 

• … analysis of highly co-cited papers (Wilcock, 2013). Wilcock’s (2013) graph illustrates …

• Wilcock (2013) presents a graph of co-citation papers published in the biometrics field. Wilcock analyses the data ...

Use ‘&’ between the authors' surnames when they are enclosed within brackets. Use ‘and’ when they form part of the sentence.

• ... how teaching and reflection impacts on information literacy (Magnusson & Zaar, 2017). Magnusson and Zaar (2017) indicate this is a natural part of the teaching process.

• Magnusson and Zaar’s (2017) colourful poster demonstrates the use of reflection with information literacy. Magnusson and Zaar show how this improves …

List all surnames in the first citation, but subsequently, only the first listed author is used, followed by et al. A comma precedes 'and' and '&' when there are three or more authors.

• …  the impact of socioeconomic significance on the cognitive development of children (Stuart, Pacheco, Hedges, & Morton, 2014). Stuart et al. (2014) also considered the effect ...

• In a recent study, Wroe, Ferrara, McHenry, Curnoe, and Chamoli (2010) showed that ... Another finding, according to Wroe et al., was that ...

Cite only the surname of the first author followed by et al.

• ... in the academic environment (Doci et al., 2014). Quality teaching and culture, according to Doci et al. (2014), was responsible ...
• In the poster presentation, Doci et al. (2014) showed that there is increasing pressure ... Teaching quality has an impact on improving student learning. Surveys were piloted by Doci et al., followed by focus groups ...