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APA Citation Style 7th Edition

This guide will help you with formatting your citations according to the APA guidelines.

About Citing Interviews

 

Personal interviews are not included in the reference list because they do not provide recoverable data. Cite them in text only.

For examples of how to cite an interview you've read, see the APA Style blog.

An Interview (p. 259)

 

General Format
In-Text Citation (Paraphrase): 
(Interviewee First Initial. Second Initial. Surname, personal communication, Month Day, Year)

In-Text Citation (Quotation):
(Interviewee First Initial. Second Initial. Surname, personal communication, Month Day, Year)
References:
Do not include in list
Example
In-Text Citation (Paraphrase):
(T. Barlow, personal communication, March 12, 2003)

In-Text Citation (Quotation):
(T. Barlow, personal communication, March 12, 2003)
References:
Do not include in list.    

Learn More

 

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University offers an online resource which can be used in some cases.  However, it does not include everything required for citing sources in one place.

The APA citation style does not cover Canadian government sources, and has only a limited section on American government resources.

Please refer to the staff at the Library Reference Desk for clarification when citing Canadian government sources.