This lecture script is intended to serve as guidelines and practical help for you, dear students of geography, to familiarize yourself with the principles of academic papers and to adopt appropriate practices. For a successful program of study in geography, it is very important to know and adhere to these rules in the sense of “good scientific practice”.

This lecture script provides you with subject-specific (e.g. standards and rules that generally apply in geography and may differ from other subjects), institute-specific (e.g. instructions on scientific text products commonly used at the Institute of Geography Mainz, which are created in the program of study) and university-specific information (e.g. equipment and offers of the University of Mainz). It is therefore largely tailored to you as a student of geography at the University of Mainz.