• Personal communications include
• Only published works, forthcoming published works, and unpublished materials available to scholars in a library, a depository, or an archive may be cited.
• For interviews or other "non-recoverable" information, no citation number is necessary.
• Include the author and date of the communication in the text itself.
• Follow the In Text Citation Guidelines for Citing Personal Communication when referring to a personal communication in text.
Personal communications (in text)
"In a personal interview with Bill Gates on June 28 2006, he suggested that he would soon rule the world."
"In a letter to the author dated September 28 2018, Professor Mueller detailed his experiences with using this data collection software."