# Urgent - how to cite a transcript of an interview? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 12, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-how-to-cite-a-transcript-of-an-interview/181435 "2003-06-12T20:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-how-to-cite-a-transcript-of-an-interview/181435/1 "2003-06-12T20:56:02Z")
Ok, I’ve checked my styleguide (Handbook of Technical Writing by Brusaw, Alred, and Oliu). Doesn’t have anything in it. I need to use [this](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec00/sg_11-7.html) in a paper. Actually, I’ve got a whole stack of sources like that. How do I do a proper bibliographic entry for this? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-how-to-cite-a-transcript-of-an-interview/181435/2 "2003-06-12T21:02:30Z")
[Would this help?](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iohp/citation/) > [@](#): > > (Name of Narrator), in an interview recorded by (Name of Interviewer), Date of Interview), (Place of the Interview), Iranian Oral History Collection, Harvard University. Online \. (date of download or review of web page). ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-how-to-cite-a-transcript-of-an-interview/181435/3 "2003-06-12T21:02:44Z")
D’oh. :smack: Added to ask about two other things. I have a whole bunch of cartoons which I’m analyzing as part of this paper. I got them all (all old ones, btw, from 2000) from [here](http://cagle.slate.msn.com) Do I cite this if the cartoons are included in the text of the paper? Also: would I cite a ‘Q&A’ like the one [here](http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/10/costello.ga/) the same way I would cite a chat/TV interview transcript? ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-how-to-cite-a-transcript-of-an-interview/181435/4 "2003-06-12T21:12:02Z")
According to _The Bluebook_, 16th ed., page 122, and 125, this looks like a combination citation of a television broadcast and interview. You should “include the title and institutional affiliation, if any, of the interviewee,” and you must also provide the name of the interviewer. The television show is to be placed in italics; films should be placed in large and small caps. So I suspect the page you offer might be cited as: _Newshour with Jim Lehrer_, interview by Jim Lehrer with Mark Shields, syndicated columnist, and Paul Gigot, columnist for the _Wall Street Journal_(PBS television broadcast, November 7, 2000). However, DO NOT merely take my word for it. I haven’t written a paper without mis-punctuating and otherwise screwing up a citation yet. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-how-to-cite-a-transcript-of-an-interview/181435/5 "2003-06-12T21:12:36Z")
Does your style book say how to cite webpages? Can you cite them as webpages? ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-how-to-cite-a-transcript-of-an-interview/181435/6 "2003-06-12T21:13:23Z")
…And the streak continues! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-how-to-cite-a-transcript-of-an-interview/181435/7 "2003-06-12T21:15:21Z")
[Maybe this might help?](http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html#Electronic) (There was an earlier thread in ATMB about citing SDMB, which I answered, [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=182612) ---
**Author:** ![petre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@petre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petre)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-how-to-cite-a-transcript-of-an-interview/181435/8 "2003-06-12T21:19:37Z")
For any that find that one too easy, maybe you can chew on a similar problem I faced in my first year psychology class. How do I cite text I took from a book that exists in a persistant world virtual reality, signed only by a fictional character? I eventually just listed the title of the book, fictional author name, and the server’s network information. I really enjoyed the look on the prof’s face when I asked it that was alright 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-how-to-cite-a-transcript-of-an-interview/181435/9 "2003-06-12T21:23:41Z")
That sounds about right, **petre**. Of course, it must have been, unless the professor’s look was a glare… ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-how-to-cite-a-transcript-of-an-interview/181435/10 "2003-06-12T23:24:26Z")
**SofaKing** rocks. Thanks to all. I loooove end of the year deadlines…