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Turabian Citation Style Guide: Personal Communications and Interviews

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Personal Communications and Interviews

Published or broadcast interviews

An interview that has already been published or broadcast is treated like an article in a periodical or a chapter in a book. Interviews consulted online should include a URL or similar identifier and, for audiovisual materials, an indication of the medium.

N:  117. “Mil Máscaras: An Interview with Pulitzer-Winner Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao),” by Matt Okie, Identitytheory.com, September 2, 2008, http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/okie_diaz.php.

    118. McGeorge Bundy, interview by Robert MacNeil, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, PBS, February 7, 1990.

    119. Darcey Steinke, interview by Sam Tanenhaus and Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review, podcast audio, April 22, 2007, http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2007/04/20/21bookupdate.mp3.

Bellour, Raymond. “Alternation, Segmentation, Hypnosis: Interview with Raymond Bellour.” By Janet Bergstrom. Camera Obscura, nos. 3–4 (Summer 1979): 89–94.


*Internet message board (newsgroup, online forum, discussion group), electronic mailing list, or blog post. Usually cited only in a note, but may include citation in the bibliography if reference is critical to your argument or frequently cited.

Example: Military Message Traffic:

N:  1 John Smith, comment on “Carrier Strike Group 12 Incident,” Navy Knowledge Online Message Boards, comment posted March 10, 2009, https://wwwa.nko.navy.mil/portal/home/ (accessed March 1, 2010).

Legend

N: = Note

B: = Biblography

P: = In-text citations which are enclosed in parentheses.

R: = Reference List

 

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