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The authorship requirements for incorporated published work have changed for graduate researchers who submit their thesis after 1 January 2025. These changes have been made to provide more flexibility. They are now part of the explanations on this page.

You may include in-progress or published material written during your enrolment, with approval of your advisory committee, as part of your thesis. These may be either 'included publications' or 'included material'.

• Included publications: Publications that are included as components that are distinct from the rest of the thesis. These must use a specific format.
• Included material: Work that is drawn from your publications and combined with text that is written specifically for the thesis.

In this page we refer to both of these as 'incorporated publications'. The first format, where the publications are included as distinct components, is also known as 'thesis with publications'.

The Preparation of Graduate Research Theses Process explains what can be included in the thesis. The University has also published a statement on text recycling and self-plagiarism in research. This statement aims to provide guidance on acceptable and unacceptable uses of text recycling to help you protect the integrity of your thesis as well as other research outputs.

You may have to supplement the incorporated publications with additional methods sections as they are often abbreviated in published articles. You are also encouraged to include any data and discussion that was excluded from the article. If you include a literature review or survey paper, it should be supported by an analysis of relevant work that has been published since the review was written.

Where a publication is included as a distinct component, you are encouraged to include a critical reflection on the work. This could acknowledge or address limitations, strengths or impacts of the work that have appeared since publication.

If you are the recipient of an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship (either fee-remission and/or stipend), you will need to quote the specific RTP DOI in any publications you produce as part of your research. View the correct way to present this acknowledgement.

Don’t forget to include your Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) when submitting your work to publishers, conference organisers and so on. This will help you to identify your research activities and outputs and ensure that you get credit for your work throughout your career.