InfoGuides: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Citation Style: Citing Conference Proceedings/Papers

Format of Conference Papers

For conferences not published in proceedings, refer to Publishing in ASCE Citation Style. Conference proceedings are kind of a hot mess of rules for ASCE style. For special cases, see the document.

You must have (or follow rules when it doesn't exist)

Authors
Title of the paper
Title of the proceedings (its abbreviation if not using a reference manager)
City of Publication
Publisher Name
Pages or paper number

You need if it exists

Editors
Volume number
DOI
URL if no DOI

Last name, A. A., and B. B. Last name. Year. “Title of paper.” In Abbrev. of Proc. Title, edited by C. Last name, pp. xx-xx. City of Publisher, (only U.S. State): Abbrev. of Publisher. https://doi.org/DOI

Ebrahim, A., and A. J. Kalyanapu. 2015. "Investigation of the impact of streamflow temporal variation on dam overtopping risk: Case study of a high-hazard dam." In World Environ. Water Resour. Congr., edited by K. Karvazy, and V. L. Webster, 1050-1057. Reston, VA: ASCE. https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784479162.103.

Troubleshooting Zotero - Conference Papers in a Proceedings

There are some issues with the ASCE Citation style for conference papers published in a proceedings. If you aren't submitting to an ASCE publication, both of these issues might be ok (ask your professor).

The word, in, is missing before the book title.
A DOI or URL doesn't display even if you have one.

For any document type that is a portion of a larger (e.g., conference paper in a proceedings)

Is there missing information that didn't import into your Zotero database?
Make sure that all the needed citation information is filled out in Zotero. The list of fields needed is on this webpage.
Is the conference paper title field not written in sentence case?
Sentence case is written as you would write a sentence.
Zotero doesn't detect proper nouns and acronyms, so it only forces the first letter of the first word to be in uppercase. Nothing is forced to lowercase. Be sure that the information in the title field appears exactly like it will in the reference.

Example Conference Paper Title

Incorrect

Air Handling Unit Shutdowns During Scheduled Unoccupied Hours: US Commercial Building Stock Prevalence and Energy Impact

Correct

Air handling unit shutdowns during scheduled unoccupied hours: US commercial building stock prevalence and energy impact