The HDR Thesis Rules set out the requirements for including publications in your Higher Degree by Research (HDR) thesis.
You can include co-authored papers, or significant sections of them, provided:
- you are the major contributing author
- you include a clear statement in prose at the front of the relevant chapters, describing the percentage contribution of each author to the work;
- the publication adheres to Flinders Authorship of Research Output Procedures, and
- your co-authors provide permission for their work to be included in the thesis on a Co-authorship form.
At all times a thesis must be referenced correctly, even if you are the author of the publication.