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Style Guide: Personal Communication

A handy guide to show you how to properly format references and in-text citations for all your resources in APA style

The American Psychological Association defines "personal communication" as “Works that cannot be recovered by readers” (American Psychological Association, 2020), such as emails, text messages, online chats or direct messages, personal interviews telephone conversations...etc.

 

 

Use in-text citation only. Ex: 

(First initial, Last name, personal communication, Month Date, Year)