How to Cite Email (Harvard)

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The guide I’m using (Cite Them Right) states email references should look like this:

 Walters, F. (2021) Email to John Stephens, 14 August.

However, there is no “email” type in Paperpile. Miscellaneous type yields a result with quotes:

Walters, F. (2021) “Email to John Stephens, 14 August.”

Manual or documentation type yields a result with italics:

Walters, F. (2021) *Email to John Stephens, 14 August* .

Is there some type or trick I can use to get just plain text for the title?

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OK, so I may have solved this by changing my entry type to “Personal communication” creating a custom version of the csl file, like so:


  <macro name="title">
    <choose>
      <if type="bill book legal_case legislation motion_picture report song thesis webpage graphic" match="any">
        <group delimiter=". ">
          <group delimiter=" ">
            <group delimiter=" ">
              <text variable="title" font-style="italic"/>
              <text variable="medium" prefix="[" suffix="]"/>
            </group>
            <text macro="number-volumes"/>
          </group>
          <text macro="edition"/>
        </group>
      </if>
      <else-if type="personal_communication" match="any">
        <text variable="title" form="long" quotes="false"/>
      </else-if>
      <else>
        <text variable="title" form="long" quotes="true"/>
      </else>
    </choose>
  </macro>