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Vancouver Referencing Style @ UCT

Vancouver Referencing Style is extensively used in the biomedical and health sciences.

Citing Conferences

CONFERENCES

Unpublished conference paper:

Author A. Title of the paper. Paper presented at - title of the conference. Year Month Date of the conference; Place where the conference was held.   

e.g.

1. Lee DY. Oncothermia with chemotherapy in patients with small-cell lung cancer. Paper presented at the Conference of the International Clinical Hyperthemia Society. 2012 Oct 12-14; Yonsei University, Budapest.

 Published conference paper (in a book):

Author of the paper. Title of the paper. In: Editor C, editor. Title of the book in which the conference paper is     published. Proceedings of title of the conference; Year Month Date of the conference. Place where the conference was held. Place of publication of the book: Publisher; Year of publication. Start & end page of the conference paper in the book. 

e.g.

2. Khan UK. Depression in the elderly. In: W Linford-Rees, editor. Nomifensine: a pharmacological  and clinical  profile. Proceedings of an International Symposium on Nomifensine. 1983 Oct 18-19; Cumberland Hotel, London. London: The Royal Society of Medicine; 1984. p. 87-91.  

 Conference proceedings:
Definition: A collection of papers presented at a conference are usually published in one volume known as conference proceedings.  

Editor A, editor. Title of the volume. Proceedings of title of the conference. Year Month Date of the conference; Place where the conference was held. Volume publication place: Publisher; Year of  publication.

e.g.

3. Kimura J, editor. Recent advances in clinical neurophysiology. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of EMG and Clinical Neurophysiology. 1995 Oct 15-19; Kyoto, Japan. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 1996.