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Harvard referencing style

Personal communications

Personal communications include:

  • telephone conversations
  • interviews or notes that are not recoverable
  • emails
  • private letters
  • non-archived discussion groups

Use in-text citations to cite Personal communications. 

No entry in the reference list is needed as personal communications are unable to be retrieved.

Example::

(B Hetherington 2022, personal communication, 3 January).