1. Formatting ERIC ED Unpublished Conference Papers
Formatting Unpublished Conference Paper
Retrieved from ERIC
APA (6th ed.)
Some conference papers that are not formally published are archived and accessible through ERIC, an electronic database sponsored by the Department of Education.
Time: 3 min.

2. Authors
Authors
Kaplan, J. S., & Tracey, D. H. (2007, November/ December). Teacher read-alouds at 2nd grade, with and without student companion texts: Unexpected findings. Paper presented at
the 57th Annual National Reading Conference, Austin, TX. Retrieved from gov (ED501507)
APA manual (6th ed.), p. 207, #39
Conference paper that has not published in proceedings.
Use last names and initials.
Use an ampersand between the two authors, and a comma before the ampersand.
Include a space between the initials.
So now let’s look at the citation for this unpublished conference paper obtained through ERIC. The two authors submitted this document online. APA describes ERIC as a The two authors are listed first with an ampersand between the two authors and a comma before the ampersand. Because this document is a paper presented at a conference but not published in conference proceedings, it is formatted as an unpublished conference paper.

3. Date
Date
Kaplan, J. S., & Tracey, D. H. (2007, November/ December). Teacher read-alouds at 2nd grade, with and without student companion texts: Unexpected findings. Paper presented at
the 57th Annual National Reading Conference, Austin, TX. Retrieved from gov (ED501507)
- Include month of the conference after the year.
Do not abbreviate the month(s).
Enclose the date in parentheses and follow by a period.
APA says that unpublished conference papers need to include the month after the year of publication. Do not abbreviate the months. Enclose the date in parentheses and follow by a period.

4. Title of Unpublished Conference Paper
Title of conference paper
Kaplan, J. S., & Tracey, D. H. (2007, November/ December). Teacher read-alouds at 2nd grade, with and without student companion texts: Unexpected findings. Paper presented at
the 57th Annual National Reading Conference, Austin, TX. Retrieved from .gov (ED501507)
Title of paper is italicized if unpublished.
Capitalize the first word in the title and subtitle of the conference paper.
Notice that because the paper was not included in a conference proceedings, the title of the paper is italicized. If the same paper had been included in published proceedings, the book title would be capitalized instead of the title of the paper.

5. Location Information
Kaplan, J. S., & Tracey, D. H. (2007, November/ December). Teacher read-alouds at 2nd grade, with and without student companion texts: Unexpected findings. Paper presented at
the 57th Annual National Reading Conference, Austin, TX. Retrieved from .gov (ED501507)
Location
Use the words “Paper presented at …”
Capitalize all the words in the proper name for the conference.
Provide the city and state abbreviation for the conference.
APA also has a specific format for providing the information about where the paper was presented. The name of the conference and the location is provided. Since the Annual National Reading Conference is a proper name, it gets capitalized.

6. Retrieval – online archive database
Kaplan, J. S., & Tracey, D. H. (2007, November/ December). Teacher read-alouds at 2nd grade, with and without student companion texts: Unexpected findings. Paper presented at
the 57th Annual National Reading Conference, Austin, TX. Retrieved from .gov (ED501507)
Retrieval statement
APA says on p. 192 of the APA publication manual that when a document is not easily available through its primary publishing channels, give the home or entry URL for the online archive. Because the document was retrieved online, a retrieval statement with the URL for the database is included. Note that APA does not usually include the name of the database. To complicate things, APA uses the name of the database in one APA example, ---, but APA uses the URL for the database in the example on page For the purposes of this example, the format for this citation was modeled on ---
- Provide the home or entry URL for the ERIC online archive.
Use the words “Retrieved from…” - Do not include the retrieval date since this is the final or archival version of the document.
Start the URL with and do not include a period at the end.
Remove the color and underline for any hyperlink formatting.

7. ERIC ED Accession Number
Kaplan, J. S., & Tracey, D. H. (2007, November/ December). Teacher read-alouds at 2nd grade, with and without student companion texts: Unexpected findings. Paper presented at
the 57th Annual National Reading Conference, Austin, TX. Retrieved from .gov (ED501507)
ERIC ED accession number
The fact that this is an ERIC document is included in the parenthetical statement by providing the ERIC document number, ED There is no period following the parentheses.
Provide the ERIC document number in parentheses.
Do not end with a period.
See p. 257, #43 for information on formatting of ED numbers.

8. Retrieval -- URL
Kaplan, J. S., & Tracey, D. H. (2007, November/ December). Teacher read-alouds at 2nd grade, with and without student companion texts: Unexpected findings. Paper presented at
the 57th Annual National Reading Conference, Austin, TX. Retrieved from .ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content _storage_01/ b/80/3d/e0/8a.pdf
Retrieval statement
Some people may also find this article using a search engine because the document can be freely accessed on the web. If you did not know about the ERIC archival database, it would also be acceptable to use a retrieval statement with the exact URL.
- Retrieved online with exact URL.

9. APA (6th ed.) APA manual, pp. 206-207 --
The example of a conference paper published in proceedings provided in a book format – p. 207, #39
Also see formatting informally published documents in ERIC --- p. 212, #62
This completes this video on how to format an unpublished conference papers available through the ERIC database. For more information, refer back to the APA publication manual on pages 206 and You can also see information about formatting ERIC resources on page 212 #62.