MLA 9 conference paper citation format
Author Last, First. “Paper Title.” Proceedings Title or Conference Name, edited by First Last, Publisher, Year, pp. #–#.
Example:
Nguyen, Thanh. “Deep Learning Approaches to Natural Language Processing.” Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023, pp. 1234–1245. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.100.
Paper without published proceedings
Author Last, First. “Paper Title.” Conference Name, Location, Day Month Year.
Example:
Patel, Ananya. “Climate Equity in Urban Design.” Urban Design International Conference, Chicago, 18 Oct. 2022.
Conference paper from online repository (arXiv, ACL Anthology)
Author Last, First. “Paper Title.” Repository Name, Year, URL or DOI.
Key rules
- Paper title in quotation marks
- Proceedings/conference name italicised
- Include editors of the proceedings if listed (“edited by…”)
- Add DOI or URL if available — always preferred for online proceedings
- Page range: “pp. 1234–1245”
In-text citation
(Nguyen 1237) or (Patel)