How do I cite an interview using the MLA format?
Answer
To cite a published interview, use the MLA rules for that format (book, newspaper, etc.) with the interviewee as the author. Adding interviewer information is optional. For example:
Khan, Moazzam. “An Interview with Moazzam Khan, Ex-Director General Marine Fisheries Department ‘Our Post-Harvest Losses Are 90 Percent.’” Technology Times, 3 June 2020, https://www.technologytimes.pk/2020/06/03/an-interview-with-moazzam-khan-ex-director-general-marine-fisheries-department-our-post-harvest-losses-are-90-percent/.
Abrams, J.J. "Exclusive: J.J. Abrams on Star Wars, Apple, and Building Bad Robot into a Hollywood Force." Fast Company, 9 Apr. 2019, https://www.fastcompany.com/90331236/exclusive-j-j-abrams-on-star-wars-apple-and-building-bad-robot-into-a-hollywood-force. Accessed 11 June 2020.
To cite an interview found on YouTube, use this general format in your Works Cited:
Last Name, First Name of Interviewee. Title of Video. YouTube, uploaded by, day month year it was uploaded, URL of video.
X, Malcom.
To cite a personal interview (you interviewed someone yourself), you put the name of the person being interviewed, the descriptor "personal interview with the author," and the date of the interview. (Author here being you, the interviewer). For example:
Stevens, Ramona. Personal interview with the author. 19 Nov. 2024.
In-text citations for interviews:
As with other citations in the MLA format, the in-text citation is whatever comes first in your Works Cited entry. For interviews, it is the last name of the person being interviewed with the page number (if applicable).
For example:
(Stevens)
If you mention the name of the person being interviewed in your sentence, then no in-text citation is necessary. For example:
Stevens mentions the difficulty of finding good routes to travel.
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