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Last name of interviewee, First Name. Interview. By interviewer First Name Last Name, Day Mon. Year of Interview. 

Example

Myers, Elizabeth. Interview. By Bob Jones, 12 Mar 2025. 

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Last name, First Name, Elder, Nation/Community. Topic/subject of communication if applicable. Personal communication, Date Mon. Year. Territorial Acknowledgement of where information was shared/collected. 

Example

Lekeyten, Elder, Kwantlen First Nation. Community Justice. Personal communication, 4 April 2019. Shared on the traditional unceded territory of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt and Kwikwetlem Peoples.  

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Last name of interviewee, First Name. "Subject Line of Email." Received by Interviewer, Day Mon. Year. Email Interview.

Example 

Stewart, Hazel. "Documents form National Library of Scotland". Received by Catie Reynolds, 27 Sept. 2025. Email Interview. 

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Last name of Interviewee, First name of Interviewee. "Title of the Interview". Interview conducted by First Name Last Name. Title of Article Containing the Interview, edited by First Name Last Name, Journal Publication, Year, page range. 

Example

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. “English Is the Hero.” Interview conducted by Diri I. Teilanyo. No Condition Is Permanent: Nigerian Writing and the Struggle for Democracy, edited by Holger Ehling and Claus-Peter Holste-von Mutius, Rodopi, 2001, pp. 13–19.

Some examples courtesy Columbia College and the MLA Style Center

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•    Books
•   Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
•  Dissertations & Theses
•   In-text Citations
•   Web pages & Social Media
•   Other Source Types

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