Aims & Scope: Solar Energy, the official journal of the International Solar Energy Society® (ISES), is
devoted exclusively to the science and technology of solar energy applications. Solar Energy welcomes manuscripts presenting
information not previously published in journals on any aspect of solar energy research, development, application, measurement or policy.
The term "solar energy" in this context includes the indirect uses such as wind energy and biomass. Because of the international character
of Solar Energy, articles that deal solely with the specific country solar radiation or wind database are not normally considered
suitable for Solar Energy. Submitted manuscripts may take the form of reports of original studies or reviews of significant
prior work in a given area. All manuscripts are subject to reviews to assure accuracy, clarity, and long-term value.
Submissions: Only English language texts can be accepted. Authors may be members or non-members of ISES®. Those who are ISES® members
should indicate their affiliation on the title page of their manuscript.
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Regular Papers versus
Brief Notes:
Most of the papers published in Solar Energy are Regular Papers that give in-depth treatment to a particular
topic (no more than 20 pages long or about 6,000 words). However, Solar Energy also publishes Brief Notes (no more than 1500
words or about 3 journal pages). A Brief Note must be a self-contained, small contribution. Often it is a critique or a response to something
previously published in Solar Energy. Other times it is a short note describing a modification or enhancement to an existing
algorithm or method or results, based on known methods.
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The technical description of the methods used should only be
given in detail when such methods are new.
Appendix. Mathematical analyses and other material, the details of which are subordinate
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References. All publications cited in the text
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(without initials) and year of publication (e.g. Henderson, 1982). For three or more authors, use the first author followed by "et al.",
in the text (e.g. Davis et al., 1996). The list of references should be arranged alphabetically by authors' names. The manuscript should
be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of authors' names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list.
For journal references Feugard, D.C., Abner, R., Wayland, D., 1994. Modelling daylight illuminance. J. Climate Appl.
Meterol. 23, 93-109.
For books
Duffie, J.A., Beckman, W.A., 1991. Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes, second ed.
Wiley Interscience, New York, pp. 54-59.
For chapters in edited books
Marcus, B.C., Nemo, A., 1992. Estimation of total
solar radiation from cloudiness in Spain. In: Winchester, F., Yu, S., Pfaff, S.W., Major, K. (Eds.), Global Solar Radiation, vol. 2.
Raven Press, New York, pp. 1393-1399.
Page(s) in a Proceedings
Weber, D.J., Hess, W.M., 1985. Simple solar model for
direct and diffuse irradiance. In: Bilgen, E., Hollands, K.G.T. (Eds.), Proceedings of ISES? World Congress, Montreal, Canada, pp. 123-132.
ASES-1999 Conference,Portland, ME. The SLC
version of the CPE may be accessed at:
http://www.clean-power.com/nrelpv/login.asp
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