Writing a term paper or thesis

Please use the following stylesheets when writing a term paper or thesis at the Institute of Linguistics.

Stylesheet Linguistics (German) / (English)

Guidelines on the use of generative AI (Deutsch)

Detailed Guidelines: Preparation of a scientific paper in syntax (German) / (English)

provided by Katharina Hartmann

translated and typeset in LaTeX by Anke Himmelreich

LaTeX template (incl. pdf, tex, bib): guidelines_scientific_papers.zip

LaTeX

It is very worthwhile to learn typesetting with LaTeX during your studies. This saves you a lot of work on the format questions. You can find a detailed script for self-studying LaTeX here:
https://www.ankehimmelreich.de/downloads/skript_latex.pdf

 

  • Here you find a presentation by linguistics students, which was created as part of the seminar “Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten”  and explains what LaTeX is and how it works. The script could be used as a template for presentations with LaTeX.

 

typst

A linguistics student has prepared an introductory presentation that provides an overview of typst and explains how it differs from LaTeX.