Find features of the publication template, including how to build review and publish a publication.
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About the publication content type
The publication features:
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Build a publication landing page
There are 2 ways to create a publication landing page:
From the Dashboard, select Add content, then choose Publication from the next page.
Go to the Content tab, select Add content, then Publication.
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Publication details
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License Type
Select from Copyright (if the publication cannot be shared or used in other work) or Creative Commons (if the publication can be shared or used in other work).
Date of publication
Date the publication was released (it only displays month and year on live page).
Publication author
Department or branch that owns the publication. You can only select one author.
Header*
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Title*
Title of your publication.
Summary*
This is a short description of the publication and is picked up within search engines.
Introduction text
Brief summary that appears under the page title. Keep it short.
Featured image
Feature images don't display on the page you're creating. They display on featured cards or navigation links to the page. They must be resized to 496px high x 818px wideFor more information, visit: image ratios, sizes and component use.
Page content*
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When Add Component is selected, you have the following options:
Default appearance
Display the publication title and introduction text.
Customised Header*
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Header style*
Default appearance: displays the publication title and introduction text.
Full-width background image: display a hero image as well as the publication title and introduction text. Follow our hero image instructions.
Sidebar*
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Documents
Add the original document to this publication. Format is PDF document. This will sits on the right hand side of the page.
Publication Navigation
Add publication navigation to your page. This will sits on the right hand side of the page.
The menu is checked to display by default.
Related links
Related pages can be linked from this sidebar. Check this box if you want to show Related Content for this page.
This is unchecked to display by default.
Contact
Select Add Contact us to include a Title, Name, Department name, Email, Address, Postal address, Phone Title and Phone Number and Social media links.
Topic*
Select a topic term and start typing the term in the field. Select the topic to add it to the field once it’s displayed.
Content category
Select the most relevant option from the list of content categories. This mandatory field will help with search and filtering on the website.
Save your work
Click Save once you're happy with your latest draft.
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Add chapters to your publication
Once you've created and saved the publication landing page, the Children tab will display. This means you can start adding child pages (usually chapters) for the publication.
Select the Children tab.
Select Create new Publication page.
Header
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Publication/Parent page: should remain as the landing page for your publication.
Title*: chapter title
Summary*: this is the meta description that appears in Google search results. Recommended length <156 characters. Use keywords.
Introduction text: add a brief summary of the page. This displays under the page title.
Page content
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When Add Component is selected, you have the following options:
News listing(do not use, being deprecated)
Customised header tab
Header style* allows you to select between 2 options.
Default appearance
Display the chapter title and introduction text.
Full-width background image
Display a hero image, the publication title and introduction text. Follow our hero image instructions.
Chapter sidebar
For instructions on using the sidebar, visit our sidebar components page.
Change the order of your chapters
For instructions, visit: How to change the order of children in your publication.
Save your work
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Sidebar
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Publication Navigation
Add publication navigation to your page. This will sits on the right hand side of the page.
The menu is checked to display by default.
Related links
Related pages can be linked from this sidebar. Check this box if you want to show Related Content for this page.
This is unchecked to display by default.
Contact
Select Add Contact us to include a Title, Name, Department name, Email, Address, Postal address, Phone Title and Phone Number and Social media links.
Header style* allows you to select between 2 options.
Social sharing
The social sharing box can be hidden in special circumstances. This is checked to display by default.
Save your work
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Click Save once you're happy with your latest draft.
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Add footnotes, endnotes or references
We follow the Australian Government's Style Manual for footnotes, endnotes or references.
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add a Heading 2 titled Footnotes, Endnotes or References
list the entire source content like the below example.
Referencing example
Below is an example of referencing.
The below features an H3 heading. Use an H2 for your publication.
References
115 State of Victoria (2014–2016): Royal Commission into Family Violence: Report and Recommendations, Parl Paper No 132, Vol 3, Chapter 18, p. 28.
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120 Unpublished data provided to the Monitor by the Crime Statistics Agency, December 2020.
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Publish your publication
Before you publish, double check the child page order is correct. The order may have gotten mixed up as you added child pages.
Once you're happy with your content:
change Change the page status to Needs Review.
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TipInstead of saving each child page as Needs review you can save time by adding the number of child pages ready for publishing in the revision log message of the Publication landing page. e.g. ‘Please schedule publish this publication for publishing at 4. 00pm on Thursday 17 May. It contains 10 child pages and 7 grandchild pages.’ The SDP publishing team will then review each page against our web content publishing checklist and publish all of the pages at once. |
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Inform us of embargoed or time-critical content in the comments. The publication can be scheduled to go live at a date/time in the future. |
Enter comments in the Change request detail field.
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Select Save (you can view saved comments in the Revisions tab).
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Content is usually published within 48 hours . Inform us of embargoed or time-critical content in the comments.
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If you’d like to schedule your publication to publish at a future date/time, visit our schedule a publication page. |
The page is then submitted to the publishing queue. We review it against the publishing checklist.
We'll publish your page if it meets publishing best practices. We'll notify you if your page needs changing before publishing.
Once your publication is live, your landing page and children pages will include:
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navigation (menu) that includes each of the publication's chapters
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the download of the publication
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print full document option that prints an HTML page with all sections merged onto one
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