• Basic information about referencing personal communication
• Referencing personal communication: Examples

• IEEE Referencing
• Citing sources in the text
• Resources used in the creation of this guide
• The Reference List
• Single citation in the text
• Multiple citations in the text
• How to use quotes in IEEE
• Paraphrasing in IEEE
• Secondary sources
• Month abbreviations
• Word abbreviations in references
• Common IEEE abbreviations and acronyms
• Page numbers
• Citing the same source multiple times
• Place of publication
• DOI in IEEE

• Personal Communications include private letters, memos, emails, personal interviews, telephone conversations, and similar resources.
• As the personal communication may not provide recoverable data, the personal communication may be cited in-text only. 
• If citing your personal communication in-text only, provide the initials as well as the surname of the communicator, along with as exact a date of communication as possible .
• Personal Communication with a recoverable, accessible data is recommended to be provided in the Reference List.
• Use your judgment in citing other electronic forms, like Twitter or SMS Texts, as Personal Communications. Remember that what you cite should have scholarly relevance.

[#]  Author(s) Initial(s). Surname, private communication, abbrev. Month. Year.

Referencing elements to cite:

• [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
• Author(s) name
• private communication
• Abbreviated month and year or correspondence

[1]    F. Khosrowshahi, private communication, Apr. 2018.