Internet, Media and Unpublished Materials
Websites, social media, news, interviews, press releases, speeches, letters and archives, under chapter 7.
Chapter 7 covers everything published outside the ordinary channels: the web, the press, the spoken word, private correspondence and the archives.
It opens by telling you not to use it. r 7.1.1 says always prefer a formally published version, and where the internet gives you enough to cite a paper source, cite the paper source and do not mention the internet at all.
URLs sit in angle brackets
A web address goes inside angle brackets (r 7.1). The brackets are part of the citation, not markup.
Where a page carries no date, the date bracket is left out entirely rather than left empty.
Author “Title” (date) Site name <url>.
Social media
r 7.1.10 tells you to avoid citing Twitter unless it is necessary, and forbids a time stamp because the time shown differs between readers in different places.
Give the author, the handle, the text of the post and the address.
Newspapers and magazines
One form covers print and online. An online edition adds “online ed” at the front of the bracket.
Online newspapers go here, under r 7.2, not under the general internet rule.
Interviews
An interview opens with “Interview with”, then the person interviewed and their position, then the interviewer and where it was broadcast or published (r 7.3).
Where a transcript exists, say where it came from.
Press releases and speeches
A speech names the speaker and their role, then the occasion, the venue, the place and the date.
Letters and emails
Correspondence opens with the medium and the sender, then the recipient, then what it was about (r 7.6).
Both the sender and the recipient can carry a role in round brackets.
Edited and translated historical texts
A historical work republished in a modern edition names both the original author and whoever edited or translated it (r 7.7.1).
Archived material
r 7.7.2 sets a purpose rather than a template. Identify the document by whichever rule fits it, then locate it by the archiving institution’s own reference scheme.
Because the reference belongs to the archive rather than to the Style Guide, Pincite takes it as free text and reproduces it exactly.
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Website or internet materialPodcastSocial media postNewspaper or magazine articleInterviewPress releaseSpeech or addressLetter or emailEdited or translated historical textArchived materialLast reviewed 6 August 2026