Conference presentation:
Contributions to meetings or symposia that have not been formallty published should still be included in a reference list as follows:
Example of Reference:
Atwood, M. (1993, December). Silencing the scream. Boundaries of the Imagination Forum. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the MLA Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
If you are citing an informal lecture (for example, a lecture provided as part of a course you are taking), you should cite it within the text of your essay as you would a personal communication. You do not need to include it in a reference list.
Example of In-Text Citation:
In her lecture on the future of nursing delivered at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario on September 14, 2011, Theresa S. Carson, the Senior Advisor for Nursing at the Robert Wood Foundation, stated that ...
Nurses need to embrace new technology in order to be effective health care providers in the future (T. S. Carson, Lecture on the future of nursing, Cambrian College, Sudbury, Ontario, September 14, 2011).