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Now, how do you cite an interview?

MLA states that the following information is necessary in an interview citation:

The name of interviewee
The title of the interview as it appeared in the publication, recording, or program (if applicable) from which it came
The name of publication, recording, or program
The name of the interviewer
Date and location (either place where the interview was held or the information about the publication you got it from)

This is a bit trickier than the song citation because you may not have all the information MLA requests, depending on whether you conducted the interview yourself or whether you got it from a secondary source.
If you got the interview from another source, say the radio, it would look something like this:

EXAMPLE:
Austin, Seth. "Interview with a Non Vampire." Talk of the Nation. Natl. Public Radio. NIU, DeKalb. 30. Oct. 1984.

Now if you conducted the interview yourself, a few things would be missing (e.g., a title and a publication). In this case, MLA suggests that you use a descriptive title and give what information you can.

EXAMPLE:
Miller, Erin. Personal interview. 3. Sept. 1999.

As you can probably tell, there are so many special cases and questions that it really is important to double check and refer to a handbook.

So let's say that you interviewed Ms. Erin Miller (the example above) for your paper about jazz. She gave you lots of good information, and you quoted her throughout your paper.

Before moving on, test your memory:

True or False:

In song citations, you must have the city in which the record was first published. True False
In interviews, you must always have a title and publication. True False
MLA format remains constant and isn't revised, so once you learn it, you needn't review it. True False