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MLA 9th

MLA (Modern Language Association) 9th edition is an author-page number referencing style requiring an in-text citation within the text of your document and a related entry in a works cited at the end of your document.

Interview - works cited

Interview title: The interview title is in quotation marks and in title case (capitalise the first letter of each major word).

Name of collection/repository: The Collection/Repository Title is in italics, and title case.

For more information on works cited format and style, see General information - basics of referencing.

Interviews

For interviews that are housed in digital or physical archives, list the interviewee as the author.

Format (Interviewer not given)

Interviewee. "Title of interview." Name of Collection/Repository, Day Abbreviated Month Year, URL. Interview.

Format (Interviewer given)

Interviewee. "Title of interview." Interview/Conducted by Interviewer name. Name of Collection/Repository, Day Abbreviated Month Year, URL.

Format (Unpublished)

Interviewee. Interview. Conducted by Interviewer nameDay Abbreviated Month Year, URL.

Examples

Garland, Judy. "A Day in the Life of Judy." American Radio Archive, 10 Aug. 1956, Interview.

Lashlie, Celia. "Celia Lahslie - Raising Boys." Interview by Kathryn Ryan. Nine To Noon Archive; Radio New Zealand, 1 March 2021, rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2511456/celia-lashlie-raising-boys.

Morgan, James. Interview. Conducted by Shirley Andrews, 24 Oct. 2020.

Sheeran, Ed. Telephone interview with the author. 23 Feb. 2024.

Interview - in-text citations

Parenthetical citation: When you use another person’s ideas or words in your text, include the author’s name and page number/s in brackets, generally at the end of the sentence, e.g. ... education is a key factor (Wall 25).

Citation in prose: When you use the author’s name as part of a sentence (generally at the beginning of a sentence), include the page number in brackets at the end of the sentence, e.g. Thomas Jones discussed the appropriateness of using wet towelling ... (2).

Page numbers: When no page numbers or any other numbering is given, then no numbering is added to the citation. If there are section and/or paragraph numbers, then these can be added.

Personal author

Parenthetical citation

In the interview, there was much discussion about the issues of raising boys and the way information is processed (Lashlie).

Citation in prose

Celia Lashlie discusses the issues of raising boys, and one key message is the different ways that boys and girls process information and express emotions.