APA - American Psychological Association

The end documentation in the APA system is called a References List. It is located at the end of a document or book and contains all the bibliographic information needed to find out more about cited source material.

This list is a selective bibliography and does not include a full accounting of sources related to or consulted before you began writing your document, but only those actually cited.

Proper APA documentation depends on this list. Without it the in-text citations would make little sense as they would no longer be pointing to corresponding entries in the end documentation.