Conference Proceedings

Scholars and researchers frequently get together to present their latest research findings. The meeting is usually called a conference or a symposium.

Scholars submit papers, in advance, and are selected to present their papers to their colleagues at the meeting. These papers are often collected and published after the meeting in a work called Proceedings.

These papers can be very useful for your own research on a topic, because they show the latest research in the subject.

Sometimes the Proceedings are published in a scholarly journal; sometimes they are published in a separate work.

Here is a citation for the introduction to a set of Proceedings:

Name of the Symposium

Meeting Place

Dates of
Meeting

Number of ERIC Documents
(where you can read this
document)

Portion of the Proceedings Included in ERIC Doc 461241

Text Box: Proceedings of the National Symposium: Policy and Practice To Ensure High Quality Teachers for Children and Youth with Disabilities (Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2001). Executive Summary. Developing the Special Education Workforce. (ED461241)

Helpful Hints: people at a meeting

You can tell that the citation refers to Proceedings because

It lists the name of the meeting and its date and place.
You will find citations for complete sets of proceedings or for individual papers within the proceedings. Both kinds of citations will refer to the meeting where the paper was presented.