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APA Style: Correspondence Between Reference List and Text

"Each work cited in the text must appear in the reference list, and each work in the reference list must be cited in the text."

Exceptions:

  • "Personal communications, which are unrecoverable sources, are cited in the text only."
  • "General mentions of whole websites or periodicals . . . do not require a citation or reference list entry."

(Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 2020, p. 257).