Style Guide
This guide contains the style guidelines to prepare content for Web pages for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. This guide features formatting, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and language guidelines.
Use the alphabetical index below to locate topics covered in the guide. You may also browse the full text of the style guide.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
- A/An
- Abbreviations
- Acronyms
- Active Voice/Passive Voice
- Addresses and Phone Numbers
- Affect/Effect
- Air Conditioning
- Appendices
- Assure/Ensure/Insure
B
C
- Capitalization
- Captions
- Chemical Terms
- Colons
- Commas
- Common Errors in English Usage
- Compose/Comprise
- Compound Words, Unit Modifiers, and Hyphens
- Comprise/Compose
- Criterion
D
E
F
G
H
I
L
M
- Mathematical Symbols
- Measurement Units
- Memorandum
- Metric Conversions
- Metric System
- Misplaced Modifiers
- Months and Years
- Multiplication Symbols
N
- Nomenclatures
- Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses
- Non-SI (English) Units of Measurement
- Nouns
- Noun Strings
- Numbers
O
P
- Parallelism
- Parentheses
- Passive Voice and Active Voice
- Percent, %, and Percentage
- Periods
- Personal Pronouns
- Phenomenon
- Phone Numbers/Addresses
- Photographs
- Prefixes
- Pressure
- Principal/Principle
Q
R
S
- Scientific Notation
- Semicolons
- SI (Metric) System
- Since/Because
- Slash (Solidus)
- Sources
- Spaces
- Standards Errors
- States and Countries
