NREL Style Guide Alphabetical Index
Below you'll find an alphabetical listing of the guide's entries.
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A
- a and an
- abbreviations and acronyms
- abstracts
- academic degrees
- acknowledgments
- active voice and passive voice
- addresses
- affect and effect
- air conditioning
- air-source heat pump
- Alliance for Sustainable Energy, the Alliance
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- ampersands
- appendices
- assure, ensure, and insure
- author-date citations
B
C
- capitalization
- captions
- chemical terms
- citations
- cleantech
- close-spaced sublimation
- cogeneration
- colons
- commas
- compose and comprise
- concentrating solar power
- Congress and congressional
- contents
- contiguous United States, continental United States, and CONUS
- cooperative research and development agreement
- coproduction
- CPV
- criterion, datum, memorandum, phenomenon, and their plurals
- cyber
D
E
- "e-" terms
- ellipses
- energy efficient
- ENERGY STAR
- enhanced geothermal system
- equations
- etc.
- executive summary
- exergy
F
- federal
- figures
- first-person pronouns
- fiscal year
- fonts
- footnotes
- foreword
- fractions
- front matter and back matter
G
- geofluid
- geographic information system
- geographic regions
- geopressured geothermal resource
- Geothermal Electric Technology Evaluation Model
- geothermal heat pump
- glossary and nomenclature
- Google Earth and Google Maps
H
- headings and subheadings
- heat mining
- high-performance computing
- hybrid electric vehicle
- hyphens, compound words, and unit modifiers
I
- III-V solar cell
- Inc. and LLC
- inclusive language
- initialisms
- International and Non-English Speaking Audiences
- internet
- introduction
- inverters
- italics
- it's and its
K
L
M
- mathematical symbols
- megawatt (MW)
- megawatt-hour (MWh)
- metric conversions
- microgrid
- microseismic events
- misplaced modifiers
- months and years
- multijunction solar cell
- multiplication symbols
N
- nation
- net zero
- non-SI (English) units of measurement
- nonattainment
- noncondensable gases
- nonrestrictive phrases and clauses
- noun and adjective strings
- nouns
- NREL attribution statement
- numbers
O
P
- pagination
- parallelism
- parentheses
- percent, %, and percentage
- periods
- personal pronouns
- phone numbers
- photo, image, and video credits
- photovoltaics and photovoltaic
- policymaker
- preface
- prefixes
- pressure
- principal and principle
Q
R
- race and ethnicity
- Rankine cycle
- ratios
- references and citations
- renewable energy certificate
- renewable portfolio standard
- report contents
- report covers
- Research Support Facility
- restrictive phrases and clauses
- rheology
S
- scientific notation
- semicolons
- SI (metric) system
- slash (solidus)
- Smart Grid and smart grid
- solar cell interfaces
- solar conversion efficiency
- solar electricity
- sources
- spaces
- spelling
- standard errors
- state implementation plan
- states and countries
- statistical terms
- subcaptions
- systems integrator
T
- table of contents
- tables
- taxonomic names
- technical abbreviations
- techno-economic
- temperature
- that and which
- time
- title page
- trademark symbols
- translations
U
- U.S. Department of Energy
- unit modifiers
- United Kingdom and U.K.
- United States and U.S.
- units of measurement
- URLs
W
Z
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