diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f9f0726e77..3d13561810 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ====
-HEAT
+Heat
 ====
 
 Heat is a service to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications using
diff --git a/doc/docbkx/README.rst b/doc/docbkx/README.rst
index 9554b3fe7f..f2312e22b3 100644
--- a/doc/docbkx/README.rst
+++ b/doc/docbkx/README.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Build the REST API reference manual:
   cd api-ref
   mvn clean generate-sources
 
-Build the Heat admin guide:
+Build the heat admin guide:
 
   cd heat-admin
   mvn clean generate-sources
diff --git a/doc/source/getting_started/standalone.rst b/doc/source/getting_started/standalone.rst
index 2d7f25c3dc..9739bd2b21 100644
--- a/doc/source/getting_started/standalone.rst
+++ b/doc/source/getting_started/standalone.rst
@@ -11,22 +11,22 @@
       License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
       under the License.
 
-How to get Heat to work with a remote OpenStack.
+How to get heat to work with a remote OpenStack.
 ================================================
 
 Say you have a remote/public install of OpenStack and you want to use
-a local install of Heat to talk to it. This can be handy when
+a local install of heat to talk to it. This can be handy when
 developing, as the remote OpenStack can be kept stable and is not
 effected by changes made to the development machine.
 
 So lets say you have 2 machines:
 
  * “rock” ip == 192.168.1.88 (used for base OpenStack services)
- * “hack” ip == 192.168.1.77 (used for Heat development)
+ * “hack” ip == 192.168.1.77 (used for heat development)
 
 Install your OpenStack as normal on “rock”.
 
-In this example "hack" is used as the devstack to install Heat on.
+In this example "hack" is used as the devstack to install heat on.
 The localrc looked like this::
 
   HEAT_STANDALONE=True
diff --git a/doc/source/scale_deployment.rst b/doc/source/scale_deployment.rst
index 4b2a9af58c..07cc8787c7 100644
--- a/doc/source/scale_deployment.rst
+++ b/doc/source/scale_deployment.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ This guide, using a devstack installation of OpenStack, assumes that:
 
     1. You have configured devstack from `Single Machine Installation Guide
        <http://devstack.org/guides/single-machine.html>`_;
-    2. You have set up Heat on devstack, as defined at `Heat and Devstack
+    2. You have set up heat on devstack, as defined at `heat and Devstack
        <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/getting_started/
        on_devstack.html>`_;
     3. You have installed `HAProxy <http://haproxy.1wt.eu>`_ on the devstack
@@ -42,16 +42,16 @@ This guide, using a devstack installation of OpenStack, assumes that:
 Architecture
 ============
 
-This section shows the basic Heat architecture, the load balancing mechanism
+This section shows the basic heat architecture, the load balancing mechanism
 used and the target scaled out architecture.
 
 Basic Architecture
 ------------------
 
-The Heat architecture is as defined at `Heat Architecture
+The heat architecture is as defined at `heat architecture
 <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/architecture.html>`_ and shown in the
 diagram below, where we have a CLI that sends HTTP requests to the ReST and CFN
-APIs, which in turn make calls using AMQP to the Heat engine.
+APIs, which in turn make calls using AMQP to the heat engine.
 ::
 
                    |- [REST API] -|
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Load Balancing
 As there is a need to use a load balancer mechanism between the multiple APIs
 and the CLI, a proxy has to be deployed.
 
-Because the Heat CLI and APIs communicate by exchanging HTTP requests and
+Because the heat CLI and APIs communicate by exchanging HTTP requests and
 responses, a `HAProxy <http://haproxy.1wt.eu>`_ HTTP load balancer server will
 be deployed between them.
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ distribute messages round-robin (RabbitMQ does this by default).
 Target Architecture
 -------------------
 
-A scaled out Heat architecture is represented in the diagram below:
+A scaled out heat architecture is represented in the diagram below:
 ::
 
                               |- [REST-API] -|
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ Thus, a request sent from the CLI looks like:
 Deploying Multiple APIs
 =======================
 
-In order to run a Heat component separately, you have to execute one of the
-python scripts located at the *bin* directory of your Heat repository.
+In order to run a heat component separately, you have to execute one of the
+python scripts located at the *bin* directory of your heat repository.
 
 These scripts take as argument a configuration file. When using devstack, the
 configuration file is located at */etc/heat/heat.conf*. For instance, to start
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ For this sample, consider that:
 
     1. We have an architecture composed by 3 machines configured in a LAN, with
        the addresses A: 10.0.0.1; B: 10.0.0.2; and C: 10.0.0.3;
-    2. The OpenStack devstack installation, including the Heat module, has been
+    2. The OpenStack devstack installation, including the heat module, has been
        done in the machine A, as shown in the
        :ref:`scale_deployment_assumptions` section.
 
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ Target Architecture
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 At this moment, everything is running in a single devstack server. The next
-subsections show how to deploy a scaling out Heat architecture by:
+subsections show how to deploy a scaling out heat architecture by:
 
     1. Running one ReST and one CFN API on the machines B and C;
     2. Setting up the HAProxy server on the machine A.
@@ -256,11 +256,11 @@ Running the API and Engine Services
 
 For each machine, B and C, you must do the following steps:
 
-    1. Clone the Heat repository https://github.com/openstack/heat;
+    1. Clone the heat repository https://github.com/openstack/heat;
     2. Create a local copy of the configuration file */etc/heat/heat.conf* from
        the machine A;
     3. Make required changes on the configuration file;
-    4. Enter the Heat local repository and run:
+    4. Enter the heat local repository and run:
 
     ::
 
diff --git a/tools/README.rst b/tools/README.rst
index 6e87e08152..de4428aba4 100644
--- a/tools/README.rst
+++ b/tools/README.rst
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ cfn-json2yaml
 Package lists
 =============
 
-Lists of Linux packages to install in order to successfully run Heat's
-unit test suit on a clean new Linux distro.
+Lists of Linux packages to install in order to successfully run heat's
+unit test suit on a clean new Linux distribution.
 
 test-requires-deb
   list of DEB packages as of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty