• Personal communications include letters, memos, personal interviews, telephone conversations, emails, and discussion board or forum conversations.
• Cite all personal communications in the Works Cited List.
Standard format for citation
Discussion board or forum conversation:
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Author's Surname, Given Names. Comment on "Title or Description" thread. Title of Discussion Board or Forum, Date of communication, Time of communication, Internet address. |
Email or text message:
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Author's Surname, Given Names. Details of email or text. Date of communication. |
Letters or memo:
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Author's Surname, Given Names. Details of letter or memo. Date of communication. Manuscript or typescript. |
Personal interview:
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Subject's Surname, Given Names. Interview. Conducted by Interviewer's Name, Date of interview. |
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Subject's Surname, Given Names. Telephone interview with the author. Date of interview. |
Telephone conversation:
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Participant's Surname, Given Names. Personal communication with the author. Date of communication. |
Discussion board or forum conversation
Menard, Pierre. Comment on "Charles Baudelaire" thread. Literature Network Forums, 19 Oct. 2012, 10:18:00, http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?71800-Charles-Baudelaire.
Email or text message
Brown, Collette. Text message to the author. 23 Dec. 2015.
Fisher, John. Email to the author. 14 Apr. 2020.
Messingham, Penny. Email to the Copyright Council. 5 June 2018.
Letter or memo
Lawrence, Ruth. Memo to the Publications Standards Committee. 26 Apr. 1989. Typescript.
Orpington, Lucy. Letter to the author. 12 Jan. 2012. Typescript.
Parker, Dorothy. Letter to Robert Benchley. 13 May 1920. Manuscript.
Personal interview
Denton, Andrew. Interview. Conducted by Joseph Lang, 14 Feb. 2005.
Dyson, Alan. Telephone interview with the author. 18 Oct. 2019.
Telephone conversation
Leunig, Michael. Personal communication with the author. 6 July 2017.