Best item type for transcripts of secret recordings

maayanb

What would be the best item type for a transcript of a secret recording. It's not an interview since the participants are just having a conversation that they don't know is being recorded. It's not really an audio recording since the format itself is a text transcription, and it is weird to list the participants as "performers". Is there a better item type than "Audio Recording"?

adamsmith

I'd go basic and call it a document. But I'd also not spend too much time worrying about it -- the point of the citation is to make clear what you cite and help others find & verify it (and for academic works, give credit for ideas & prior research).

As long as the format roughly keeps with the norms of whatever citation style you're using -- which it will with most item types -- it's fine.