- Conversations, unpublished letters, emails and text messages are all unrecoverable by your reader. Therefore they are classed as personal communications.
- Cite personal communications only in notes.
- Include a name, type of communication, and a date.
Note:
63. Joanie Walker, telephone conversation with author, April 6, 2012.
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You can also cite a personal communication directly in your text, rather than in your notes, by including key elements in a sentence.
In an email to the author on February 12, 2018, Te Papa's senior curator, Puawai Cairns, listed the following criteria...
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