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• Conversations, unpublished letters, emails and text messages are all unrecoverable by your reader.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• Unpublished interviews (including those you have conducted yourself) should usually be cited only in notes. Include them in your bibliography if they are critical to your argument or frequently cited.
• 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).
• Published interviews should be cited by citing the source where they were published (book, journal article, etc.).

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If you use text generated by ChatGPT or other AI software, 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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