How to exclude personal communication citation from reference list?
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.
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damnationWhy not just enter that citation manually in your text?
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dfosmoeedited June 23, 2023That'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.