Citing ISVD Content

ISVD (Institute for Social Vision Design, hereinafter "we" or "the Institute") publishes its content with the aim of making structural analysis of social issues widely available as a shared resource. This page sets out the guidelines for citing or referencing our columns, practical guides, and research.

Unless otherwise noted, the main body of columns, practical guides, and research published on this site is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Under this license, you are free to:

• Cite our content in academic papers, master's and doctoral theses, conference presentations, and teaching materials
• Translate, partially reprint, or adapt the content (without distorting the original meaning)
• Redistribute for educational and non-commercial purposes
• Reuse for commercial purposes (with appropriate credit)

The only condition is appropriate credit (source, author, URL).

For academic citation, we recommend one of the following formats.

APA (7th edition)

Last Name, Initials. (Year). Title of the article. Institute for Social Vision Design (ISVD). URL

Example:

Yokota, N. (2026). 'Kūki' and Sontaku — The Japanese Form of Pluralistic Ignorance.
Institute for Social Vision Design (ISVD).
https://isvd.or.jp/en/labs/agnotology/case-kuuki-sontaku-pluralistic-ignorance

Chicago (author-date)

Last Name, First Name. Year. "Title of the article." Institute for Social Vision Design (ISVD). URL.

MLA (9th edition)

Last Name, First Name. "Title of the Article." Institute for Social Vision Design (ISVD), Year, URL.

We are progressively registering DOIs for major columns, practical guides, and research via Zenodo. For articles with a registered DOI, the identifier will be displayed at the end of the article. When citing academically, we recommend including the DOI alongside the URL.

https://doi.org/10.xxxx/zenodo.xxxxxxx

Updates on DOI registration progress will be posted on this page.

While CC BY 4.0 permits commercial use and adaptation, we request prior consultation in the following cases:

• Adaptations that may misrepresent the Institute's views or positions
• Large-scale mechanical reproduction (AI training data, dataset compilation, etc.)
• Use in political or commercial campaigns

Please contact us via the contact form with the subject line "Inquiry about content use."

If you cite our content in academic papers, books, teaching materials, etc., we appreciate (but do not require) a notification via the contact form with the subject line "Citation report." With your consent, we may acknowledge such citations in our activity reports (handled aggregately, without identifying individuals).

This is optional and not a license obligation.

Diagrams in each article (the <*Diagram> components) are published under CC BY 4.0, the same as the main text. When reusing diagrams, please cite the source in the caption or footnote.

Photographic assets (such as Unsplash) are subject to the licenses of their respective providers.

We welcome use for research and educational purposes regardless of country or region. The guidelines on this page apply equally to citation and reference by students and researchers based at universities outside Japan.

Use via machine translation is not technically restricted, but for citation, we recommend referencing the English version (/en/...) of the article whenever possible. When the Japanese and English versions differ, please treat the English version as canonical.

For questions or consultations regarding citation, please feel free to reach out via the contact form.