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APA Style: Interviews, Email and Other Personal Communication

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Interviews, Email and Other Personal Communication

For written manuscripts APA citation style notes that personal communication is included parenthetically within the text.  The citation for a personal communication includes the communicator's name, the phrase "personal communication," and the date of the communication.

 

(E. Robbins, personal communication, January 4, 2001).

 

Sample text:  A. P. Smith also claimed that many of her students had difficulties with APA style (personal communication, November 3, 2002).

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