There is no set style or rule for the presentation of interview transcripts. Purpose and readability should drive the presentation. That being said, the following recommendations are provided:

• Do not include verbatim question-by-question transcripts in the manuscript. Rather, extract key, relevant quotations or synthesize the responses.
• Always review the quotations for any information that may accidentally reveal participants, his or her immediate community (e.g., family, clients, coworkers), or location.
• Use single-spacing for interview transcripts.
• Do not italicize participant quotations.
• Use block-style formatting for interview transcripts.
• Set quotations of fewer than 40 words off with quotation marks.
• Set the speaker’s name in parentheses at the end, as in (Participant 1).
• Unless you are doing a Delphi study, do not include the date of the interview.
• Participant quotations are considered data, so never refer to them as “personal communication.”
• For traditional “script-style” transcripts, with questions from the interviewer and answers from the participants, use a colon after the speaker’s designation and indent the first line of all new paragraphs.