# Conference proceedings

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**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [November 16, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/conference-proceedings/359 "2007-11-16T21:45:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Julian\_Onions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Julian\_Onions](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Julian_Onions)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/conference-proceedings/359/1 "2007-11-16T21:45:30Z")

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I’m not sure if this is a CSL or zotero issue. However if you add a  
conference proceedings it defaults to a type=article.  
I think it makes more sense to be a chapter style article, as the typical  
conference proceedings is something like

Jones X: _Zeolites and synthetic mechanisms._ In _Proceedings of the First  
National Conference on Porous Sieves: 27-30 June 1996; Baltimore._ Edited by  
Smith Y. Stoneham: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1996:16-27.

Which looks much more like a chapter in a book, and indeed conference  
proceedings often are a collection of papers.  
Whereas an article is more like

Zvaifler NJ, Burger JA, Marinova-Mutafchieva L, Taylor P, Maini RN:  
_Mesenchymal  
cells, stromal derived factor-1 and rheumatoid arthritis [abstract]._  
_Arthritis  
Rheum_ 1999, \*42:\*s250.

Comments?  
Julian.