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Format

Number.    Organisation name. Release title. Media release, Publisher. Month Day, Year of publication. Accessed Month Day, Year. URL 

Example

51.     Department of Social Services. Faster Hospital Discharge for NDIS Participants. Media release, DSS. September 14, 2022. Accessed October 27, 2022. https://ministers.dss.gov.au/media-releases/9106

Personal communication includes materials such as emails from unarchived sources, private memos, or unrecorded interview conversations. Confidential material may include medical charts, patient health records, and other internal reports containing private information. As these sources do not provide recoverable data or access to the data is restricted due to confidentiality, they are cited in-text only; do not include an entry in the reference list. 

  • Obtain permission from the source before citing personal communications or information from a confidential document
  • To establish the relevance and authority of the communication, include the highest academic degree or the professional affiliation of the person being cited

In-text citation

Rule

The citation must include the name of the person communicating, their qualifications or affiliations, the type of communication, and the date.

Example

In email correspondence, it was confirmed that previously detected inconsistencies had been resolved (L.Thomas, MD, email communication, February 8, 2021).


… there was no acute infarct seen (P. Wong, MBBS, radiology report, March 6, 2022).


According to the manufacturer (H. E. Lim, PhD, Pharma Global, internal company document, June 23, 2022), the immunisation will...


In a letter from M. Smith, MD on February 8, 2020, it was suggested...

The AMA Manual of Style Chapter 3.13.10 has further details about personal communications. Unpublished, confidential reports should be treated similarly. Do not confuse these types of materials with unpublished materials mentioned previously in Chapter 3.13.9.


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