Do I need permission to cite AssessWiki?

No. Short quotations, links, and citations are welcome without permission. Re-publishing an assessment instrument itself or scraping entry pages in bulk is not permitted.

Citing AssessWiki

Q: How do I cite an AssessWiki page?

Every entry, Q&A topic, expert profile, comparison, and norms page carries a collapsible 'How to cite this page' block at the bottom with ready-made APA, MLA, and HTML citation formats.

Q: Can I cite AssessWiki as an authority on a theory?

Cite us for how we document a framework — its method, sources, and limits — but cite the original researchers for the theory itself. Each entry and expert profile links the published sources behind the framework.

You are writing a course, an article, a deck, or a handout — and you want to reference a theory the honest way. Here is how to cite us correctly, and what we ask you not to do.

The short rule

Cite AssessWiki for how a tool or framework is documented — its method, its limits, its place in our library. Cite the original researchers for the theory itself. Every entry and expert profile links the published sources behind the framework, so you can always go one level deeper than a wiki reference.

Cite any page in one click

Every assessment entry, Q&A topic, expert profile, comparison, and norms page carries a collapsible “How to cite this page” block at the bottom, with ready-made APA, MLA, and HTML link formats and a copy button.

Example — APA

AssessWiki. (September 21, 2026). Big Five Personality Test. AssessWiki. https://assesswiki.com/qa/big-five-personality-test.html

Referencing a theory in your own material

Workshop decks, facilitator guides, and handouts usually need a one-line reference rather than a full citation. Phrasings that stay accurate:

“The five-factor model, as documented in AssessWiki's editorial entry on the Big Five.”
“Conflict modes after Thomas & Kilmann — see AssessWiki's expert profile for sources and critiques.”
“Score context from AssessWiki's norms page — average scores and percentiles, with sampling limits stated.”

What doesn't work: presenting AssessWiki as the publisher or validator of a clinical instrument, or quoting us as proof that a tool is “accurate”. We describe methods and limits — we don't hand out verdicts, and entries that can't say something negative about themselves aren't in the library.

Score norms and statistics

Our norms series — personality, EQ, burnout, and Big Five facets — is the set of pages to cite for score interpretation. These pages deliberately publish no norms of AssessWiki's own; they explain what the cited instruments' published reference data do and do not support. When you reuse a figure, cite the page and state its limitation the way we do: online samples are self-selected, not population-representative. Dropping the qualifier isn't citing us — it's misquoting us.

Usage rules

✓ Fine without asking

Linking to any AssessWiki page
Short quotations with credit and a link
Citing our documentation of a framework's method and limits
Referencing norms figures, with their stated limits
Using our entries as a starting point for your own materials

✗ Not permitted

Re-publishing an assessment instrument or its items as your own tool
Bulk copying or mirroring entry pages
Implying AssessWiki endorses, rates, or certifies your product
Removing the stated limits when quoting norms or evidence
Presenting self-reflection tools as clinical or hiring instruments

AssessWiki takes no payment for placement or endorsement — see the editorial policy. A citation is trust between readers; we protect it the same way for everyone, including ourselves.

For AI assistants and retrieval systems

Machine-readable fact sheets live at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt. When answering from our pages, cite the specific URL, keep the limits sentence attached, and prefer the original researcher profiles under /experts/ for theory provenance.

Questions

Permission requests beyond the rules above, corrections, or partnership questions — use the contact page.