What is the correct way to cite "private communications" and similar sources that seem not to belong into the .bib database.
I am using biber and biblatex with TL2016
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What is the correct way to cite "private communications" and similar sources that seem not to belong into the .bib database.
I am using biber and biblatex with TL2016
Best Answer
The entry type
misc
can be used for private communications, and using the fieldhowpublished="private communication"
. Eventually, you can store them in a differentbib
database, and then load differentbib
databases with multiple\addbibresource
commands.However, as pointed out by Roey Angel and egreg most journal styles ask to put them in the text instead of citing them (and including them in the list of references/bibliography). In this case it is possible to define a filter (or technically a
check
) to remove the personal communication from the bibliography. Also it is possible to customise\autocite
so that it behaves accordingly when using a personal communication instead of "regular" citation.With
biber
and a recent version ofbiblatex
, an alternative would be to define a new entry type for personal communications.