Chicago Referencing Guide

• Conversations, unpublished letters, emails and text messages are all unrecoverable by your reader.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.

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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.

• Unpublished interviews (including those you have conducted yourself) should be cited only in notes or in your text. 
• Include the following information: name of the interviewee and interviewer, place and date of the interview (if known), location of any tapes or transcripts (if known).

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If you have used content generated a generative AI tool, you must make it clear how the tool has been used.

If you quote or paraphrase text generated by Copilot, ChatGPT, or other AI applications, you should cite it as a form of personal communication, as this content can't be retrieved by the reader of your work. 

• Include the name of the AI software, the date the text was generated, and the name of the publisher or producer of the software.
• Optionally, you can include the prompt which the AI was responding to, and/or a general URL for the software (the specific URL for the generated text should not be included, as it will require a user login).
• Cite the source in notes only, do not include it in your bibliography.

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