Go to 7th Edition Quotations From Research Participants This page includes guidelines on quoting from research participants in your study.

Apa interview quotes in text. While APA citation dictates that personal interviews. When you cite an interview that has been published follow the appropriate guidelines for the specific reference eg. When citing sources using the APA interview format you must always include an in-text citation in parentheses.

Instead parenthetically cite the communicators name the phrase personal communication and the date of the communication in your main text only. When using a direct quote paraphrasing information or simply referring to a piece of information from another source. You may however cite the interview within the text as a personal communication.

Unpublished interviews and personal communications such as face-to-face or telephone conversations letters emails or text messages are best cited in-text or in notes rather than in the bibliography. If you are citing a personal interview for your publication only cite the interview in-text only and DO NOT include the full citation in your reference list. Personal interviewscommunication whether it is conducted in-person phone email virtual ie.

The way you refer to these interviews in the text depends on whether you include a transcript of the interview in an appendix. Whether the quotation is in the paragraph or its own indented paragraph the in-text citation should be included before the final period. Personal interview in-text citations are enclosed in parentheses and include the authorinterviewees first initial last name type of communication and the date of the interview.

Jackson personal interview February 8 2019. An interview is not considered recoverable data so no reference to this is provided in the reference list. Personal communications that are unpublished like personal interviews telephone conversations private.

You dont need citations when quoting your research participants. Instead a personal interview should be referenced as a parenthetical citation. Type the entire quotation on the new margin and indent the first line of any subsequent paragraph within the quotation 12 inch from the new margin.