Students generally must include a reference list or a bibliography at the end of an academic paper. This list contains so-called “references” or sources you used for your paper. These can range from websites to books to videos to newspaper publications. Your teacher or professor will use the reference list to check where you took ideas and research results from.
At the same time, you will need to include in-text citations in your paper. An in-text citation has to correspond with a reference in your list. For example, if you took a quote from a specific book, you will have it listed as a source in your reference list or bibliography and as an in-text citation next to the quote.