Cited conference papers and conference proceedings are not tagged as uniformly in the industry as are cited journals and books. The elements that can assist in preserving conference information in a citation include: the conference name (<conf-name>), the conference date (<conf-date>), the conference location (<conf-loc>), and the conference sponsor (<conf-sponsor>).
Conference dates in citations are traditionally stored in one of two forms: as a single date (“May 2011” ), or as the first day and last day of the conference. Either form could be stored in this element. The dates that come initially from separate first and last elements should be combined; for example, the separate dates:
<conf-start>August 4, 2010</conf-start> <conf-end>August 9, 2010</conf-end>
should be merged into a single conference date to become:
<conf-date>August 4, 2010 - August 9, 2010</conf-date>
Thus a tagged conference citation might look like this, tagged as an element citation:
<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>
And like this tagged as a mixed citation:
<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>