BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Bibtex, citing and interview sources

[Mixhael]

As an anthropologist, I rely heavily on interview sources. How to use bibtex for citing:

- Which bibtex format to use for an interview-source?
- Which fields should contain what?
- How to refer to an interview by citing?

Regards

[localghost]

[...] Which bibtex format to use for an interview-source? [...]

You can always use the @misc entry type. Perhaps biblatex has something better.

[...] Which fields should contain what? [...]

That depends on the information you want to have in the output.

[...] How to refer to an interview by citing? [...]

Just a normal \cite command with the according citation key will do.


Best regards
Thorsten

[Mixhael]

Thanks, I tried misc, however it requires a 'howpublished' field, and in general interviews are not published. So I tried 'unpublished', which seems to work well. Of course, it depends all on how you want to publish your information, was just curious how people in general deal with interviews as sources.

Anyway, tnx for the quick response!

[localghost]

[...] I tried misc, however it requires a 'howpublished' field, and in general interviews are not published. So I tried 'unpublished', which seems to work well. [...]

According to the bibtex manual (Section 3.1 - Entry types, p. 7ff), the @misc entry type has no required field but only optional ones. In opposite to that the @unpublished entry needs author, title and note.