How to cite an interview
Bluebook (22d ed.) citation format · B17 / R17.2.5 · Books, periodicals & other secondary
Example
Interview with Jordan Kei-Rahn, Managing Ed., Yale L.J., in New Haven, Conn. (Mar. 2, 2024).
More examples
Each of these is checked against the rules on every change to the tool.
- Interview by Lauren Brook Eisen with Shane Spradlin, CEO, Nextel Commc’ns, in Potomac, Md. (Mar. 1, 2000).
What the citation needs
Required
- Interviewee — The interviewee, as it appears on the source.
- Date — The date the rule for this source calls for, with the month abbreviated per T12 (“Nov. 24, 1978”).
When they apply
- Interviewer — The interviewer, as it appears on the source.
- Medium — The medium the work appears in.
- Place — Where the work was published or the event took place.
In a brief and in a law review
The Bluebook sets citations two ways: the Bluepages for court documents and legal memoranda, the Whitepages for law review footnotes. Here is the first example above as each one prints it, in its typeface.
Court documents (Bluepages)
Interview with Jordan Kei-Rahn, Managing Ed., Yale L.J., in New Haven, Conn. (Mar. 2, 2024).
Law review footnotes (Whitepages)
Interview with Jordan Kei-Rahn, Managing Ed., Yale L.J., in New Haven, Conn. (Mar. 2, 2024).
For this source the two are set the same way.
Common mistakes
Each of these is a citation the checker refuses, with what it says is wrong and the corrected form.
Wrong
Interview with Jordan Kei-Rahn, Managing Ed., Yale L.J. (Mar. 2, 2024) in New Haven, Conn.
Why
Could not classify (case, statute, regulation, uniform/model act, article, book, or website).
Right
Interview with Jordan Kei-Rahn, Managing Ed., Yale L.J., in New Haven, Conn. (Mar. 2, 2024).
Wrong
Interview with Shane Spradlin, CEO, Nextel Commc’ns, in Potomac, Md. (Mar. 1, 2000) by Lauren Brook Eisen.
Why
Could not classify (case, statute, regulation, uniform/model act, article, book, or website).
Right
Interview by Lauren Brook Eisen with Shane Spradlin, CEO, Nextel Commc’ns, in Potomac, Md. (Mar. 1, 2000).
Governing rules
B17 / R17.2.5
- 17 — unpublished & forthcoming sources (ordinary roman type).
- 17.2 — unpublished materials.
- 17.2.5 — interviews.
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