How to properly cite other papers in my slides? We recently submitted a paper, and now I'm creating some slides about it for future presentation. There are papers that we have cited in our paper and I need to cite them in slides too because they are directly related to our work. What I would like to do is inline citing when you just mention author's name, or conference name, or the year. I have seen works in which what is mentioned is the first author's family name, e.g. (Patterson, 2013). And I've seen those who just mention conference name and year, e.g. (PPoPP, 2012).    

I want to know which one is more appropriate, or actually correct? Where to use one, and where to use the other? Or should I use something different?
Well, in my field, it's certainly the habit to mention only the authors and the year, unless it's really old. So I would have


  Theorem [Doe, Soe, 2010; Smith 1997] There is ...


The reasons are:


If someone needs the full citation, he has the proceedings / book of abstracts.
The only interesting things in the citation are:


It's not your result, you borrow it from elsewhere
Which people did it -- quite likely you have some of them in the auditorium, they can get upset if you don't credit them, and they'll be pleased if you point them out.
How old is it -- is it something known for years, or is it a "hot result"?



If you publish the presentation online after the conference, it might be a good habit to add the whole bibliography of the proceedings as a last slide. It can be in a small font since it's only for people to read it on the computer.

The key of a talk is not to be precise, but to show the most relevant information!