Conference Proceedings

madeleinem-r

Although I see a few forums on conference proceedings, I don't see that as a genre available in standalone. Importing conference proceedings categorizes them as a book. I'd like either to import correctly, or to be able to create manually.

adamsmith

How are Conference Proceedings cited? Is that any different from a book?

madeleinem-r

While the format is like a book, the notation includes "Proceedings of the 1st blah-blah-blah conference," date and place of conference and whether published or unpublished. If unpublished, the material is circulated privately (for instance, I'm working with archived personal papers).
I do use my library for sorting types of sources, so it would also be useful to have that as a separate category. It seems that it existed in earlier zotero versions as well. Thank you!

madeleinem-r

oh, should have specified MLA format, although I think it's true for other citation styles too.

adamsmith

no, that item type never existed.

Gergely Mészáros

Proceedings are not cited as books. Proceeding is a small part of a "book" (the collection), marked by page numbers. Citations of proceedings must have pp. part.

I suppose Zotero's "conference paper" is a right type now.

adamsmith

right - for a paper from the proceedings, use conference paper - that has always been the case.
Question is if the whole proceedings are ever cited - and it sounds like that's what the OP was talking about. The closest to that we have is a book.

DWL-SDCA

The trick is to establish the difference between a conference paper and an article when the conference proceedings can be treated as a serial (with an ISSN). For a long time, I've intended to look at several of the key style guides to see what each says is proper. The items could be cited as confrence papers with dates and locations of the meetings; or they could be referenced as a journal article. I've seen the _same publication_ treated as a conference proceeding in one literature database but as a journal in another db.