The full name of the conference, including any qualifiers, such as “43rd Annual”
When the name of the conference includes the year of the conference, (e.g., “Balisage 2008”), the year should appear in both the <conf-name> and the <conf-date> elements:
<conf-name>Balisage 2008</conf-name> <conf-date>May 2008</conf-date>
<!ELEMENT conf-name (#PCDATA %conf-name-elements;)* >
(#PCDATA | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | hr | bold | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | alternatives | inline-graphic | private-char | chem-struct | inline-formula | tex-math | mml:math | abbrev | milestone-end | milestone-start | named-content | styled-content | fn | target | xref | sub | sup | x)*
Any combination of:
<conference>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <string-conf>
In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="paper">
<name><surname>Thabet</surname>
<given-names>A</given-names></name>
<article-title>Clinical value of two serial pulmonary
embolism-protocol CT studies performed within ten
days</article-title>
<conf-name>Annual Scientific Meeting and Postgraduate
Course of the American Society of Emergency
Radiology</conf-name>
<conf-date>2006 Sep 27-30</conf-date>
<conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="paper">
<string-name><surname>Thabet</surname>
<given-names>A</given-names></string-name>.
<article-title>Clinical value of two serial pulmonary
embolism-protocol CT studies performed within ten
days</article-title>. <conf-name>Annual Scientific
Meeting and Postgraduate Course of the American Society
of Emergency Radiology</conf-name>; <conf-date>2006 Sep
27-30</conf-date>; <conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
...
<article-meta>
...
<abstract>...</abstract>
<conference>
<conf-date>1999</conf-date>
<conf-name>The 27th annual ACM SI/GUCCS
conference</conf-name>
<conf-acronym>SIGUCCS</conf-acronym>
<conf-num>27</conf-num>
<conf-loc>Denver, Colorado, United States</conf-loc>
<conf-sponsor>ACM, Assoc. for Computing
Machinery</conf-sponsor>
<conf-theme>User services conference for
university and college computing service
organizations</conf-theme>
</conference>
</article-meta>
...
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