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Unit 10: Chicago referencing - Other items

This section will cover the following examples:

Interviews and personal communications

Unpublished interviews and personal communications (conversations, emails, letters, etc.) are generally cited in a footnote only; they are rarely included in the Bibliography. 

General Format 

Full Note: 
1. Interviewee/Email Sender First Name/Initial Surname, Interview by Name of Interviewer, Place and Date of Interview.

Concise Note: 
Generally the same as the full note. Can list Interviewee/Email Sender by Surname only.

Bibliography:
Typically no bibliography entry required.

Example 1

Full Note:
1. Andrew Macmillan (principal adviser, Investment Center Division, FAO), in discussion with the author, September 1998.

Example 2

Full note:
1. Interview with health care worker, August 10, 1999.

Example 3

Full note:
1. Constance Conlon, email message to author, April 17, 2000.

Example 4

Full note:
1. John Powell to Grapevine mailing list, April 23, 1998, no. 83, http://www.electriceditors.net/grapevine/archives.php.

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Chicago citation style by Red Deer College Library, modified by Marion Kelt, GCU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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