How to Format Interview Questions Using APA Format

Personal Interview

• 1

  Write the name of the person you interviewed, including his first initial and last name: (B. Tellson.)

• 2

  State that this was an interview: (B. Tellson, personal communication.)

• 3

  Include the date you conducted the interview, enclose the whole citation in parentheses and place the citation at the end of the sentence that references the interview: (B. Tellson, personal communication, September 4, 2010).

Published Interview

• 4

  Write the name of the author of the interview, including his first initial and last name: (R. Stanley.)

• 5

  Indicate the date the interview was published, as well as the page number of the document you are referring to: (R. Stanley, 2011, p. 2.)

• 6

  Enclose the whole citation in parentheses and place it at the end of the sentence that references the interview. (R. Stanley, 2011, p. 2).

• 7

  Create a References List on a separate page.

• 8

  Include the name of the author, the date in parentheses, the title of the document, any editors or translators, the website or the volume number and issue, if a periodical, and the page numbers you are referring to from the document: Stanley, R. (2011, September 4). Talking to a celebrated author of science fiction. Fiction Magazine, 51, 20-22.

• 9

  Indent the second and subsequent lines and italicize the title of the periodical.