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Chicago Style (Author/Date)

Interviews & Personal Communications

Do not cite personal communications or interviews you conducted in your reference list. Instead, cite the information in the paper as an in-text citation only.

Examples:

  • (Julie Cantor, pers. comm.).
  • (Jonathan Lee, Facebook direct message to author, May 5, 2017).
  • (Brenda Hasbrouck, text message to author, May 5, 2017).
  • (A. P. Moller, unpublished data; C. R. Brown and M. B. Brown, unpublished data).