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17.6.3 Interviews and Personal CommunicationsUnpublished interviews (including those you have conducted yourself) should usually be citedonly in notes. You generally need not include them in your bibliography, although you maychoose to include a specific interview that is critical to your argument or frequently cited.Begin the note with the names of the person interviewed and the interviewer; also include theplace and date of the interview (if known) and the location of any tapes or transcripts (ifavailable). Notice the form for a shortened note, which differs from the usual pattern. (Forbroadcast interviews, see 17.8.3.)N: 7. Andrew Macmillan, interview by author, San Diego, CA, March 2, 2007.14. Benjamin Spock, interview by Milton J. E. Senn, November 20, 1974, interview 67A, transcript, SennOral History Collection, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.17. Macmillan, interview; Spock, interview.If you cannot reveal the name of the person interviewed, cite it in a form appropriate to thecontext. Explain the absence of a name (“All interviews were confidential; the names ofinterviewees are withheld by mutual agreement”) in a note or a preface.N: 10. Interview with a health care worker, August 10, 2006.Cite conversations, letters, e-mail messages, and the like only in notes. You generally neednot include them in your bibliography, although you may choose to include a specificcommunication that is critical to your argument or frequently cited. The key elements are thename of the other person, the type of communication, and the date of the communication. Inmany cases, you may be able to use a parenthetical note (see 16.4.3) or include some or all ofthis information in the text. Omit e-mail addresses. To cite postings to electronic mailing lists,see 17.7.3.N: 2. Maxine Greene, e-mail message to author, September 29, 2005.In a telephone conversation with the author on October 12, 2006, Colonel William Rich revealed that . . .17.6.4 Manuscript CollectionsDocuments from collections of unpublished manuscripts involve more complicated and variedelements than published sources. In your citations, include as much identifying information asyou can, format the elements consistently, and adapt the general patterns outlined here asneeded.ELEMENTS TO INCLUDE AND THEIR ORDER. If possible, identify the author and date of eachitem, the title or type of document, the name of the collection, and the name of the depository.In a note, begin with the author's name; if a document has a title but no author, or the title ismore important than the author, list the title first.N: 5. George Creel to Colonel House, September 25, 1918, Edward M. House Papers, Yale UniversityLibrary, New Haven, CT.www.itpub.net