diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -293,6 +293,8 @@
 ``inspectdb`` works with PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite. Foreign-key detection
 only works in PostgreSQL and with certain types of MySQL tables.
 
+.. django-admin:: loaddata
+
 loaddata <fixture fixture ...>
 ------------------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/testing.txt b/docs/topics/testing.txt
--- a/docs/topics/testing.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/testing.txt
@@ -944,9 +944,10 @@
     Fixtures with other names can always be installed manually using the
     ``manage.py loaddata`` command.
 
-Once you've created a fixture and placed it somewhere in your Django project,
-you can use it in your unit tests by specifying a ``fixtures`` class attribute
-on your ``django.test.TestCase`` subclass::
+Once you've created a fixture and placed it in an appropiate location (see the
+:djadmin:`loaddata documentation<loaddata>` for more details) you can use it in
+your unit tests by specifying a ``fixtures`` class attribute on your
+``django.test.TestCase`` subclass::
 
     from django.test import TestCase
     from myapp.models import Animal