Research guides

These guides are designed to help you find and use a variety of resources for your research.

Select a category or browse for a specific guide.

Research tools and skills

Research tools and skills

Build your research expertise with practical guides on researcher profiles, metrics, systematic reviews, research impact and more.

Graduate research and thesis writing

Graduate research and thesis writing

Learn tips and strategies to enhance your research writing, develop your thesis writing skills and help you find useful resources.

Graduate researcher information skills

Graduate researcher information skills

Get all the information literacy and information management skills you need to complete a successful PhD or Masters thesis.

Data ready

Data ready

Get the best value from your research data, now and in the future.

Where and how to publish

Where and how to publish

Get information on which journals to publish in and discounts you may be eligible for.

Academic Referencing Tool

Academic Referencing Tool

This tool provides detailed referencing examples for the La Trobe University referencing styles, including in-text referencing, direct quotations, paraphrasing and footnoting.