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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Conference Report

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Conference Report

The required elements for the reference are:

Author Surname, INITIALS. or Organisation's name. (Year) Title of conference. Location, Date. Place of publication: Publisher.

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment:

European Association for the Study of Obesity. (2016) 22nd European Congress on obesity. Prague, Czech Republic, 6 - 9 May. Basel: Karger.

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence

According to the European Association for the Study of Obesity (2016) lifestyle has...

 

 

The required elements for the reference of an online conference report:

Author Surname, INITIALS. or Organisation's name. (Year) Title of conference. Location, Date. Place of publication: Publisher. Available at: URL [Accessed Date].

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment:

American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. (2017) ACMG Annual clinical genetics meeting 2017: posters. Phoenix, Arizona, March 21-25. Chicago: SciGen Technologies Available at: http://epostersonline.com/acmg2017/ [Accessed 09 September 2017].

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence

There are knowledge gaps in relation to genetics research (American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics 2017).

Other points to note

 

  • Note: The title of a conference is in Title case – with all major words starting with an upper case letter. 
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