How to exclude personal communication citation from reference list?

dfosmoe
edited June 23, 2023
Is there a way to exclude a personal communication citation from the reference list? For example, I have an in-text paranthetical citation ...(A. Smith, personal communication, January 1, 2023) that I do not want to showing up in the reference list IAW APA style https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/personal-communications. I've tried both email and instant message formats.
  • damnation
    Why not just enter that citation manually in your text?
  • dfosmoe
    edited June 23, 2023
    That's a technique, which I will have to use if there isn't an option to exclude a personal communication citation from the reference list. For consistency and ease of reference in a very large document, however, I'd prefer to use the citation I added to Zotero. I have a lot of folders in Zotero, with hundreds of citations, and clicking on the Zotero citation in the document allows me to open up the source in Zotero, saving me search time.
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