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mmm – three-letter abbreviation for month, e.g. Mar; mmmm – month spelled out in full, e.g. March; d – one-digit day of the month for days below 10, e.g. 2; dd – two-digit day of the month, e.g. 02; ddd – three-letter abbreviation for day of the week, e.g. Fri; dddd – day of the week spelled out in full, e.g. Friday; Separators of ...
The Chicago Manual of Style discourages writers from writing all-numeric dates, other than the year-month-date format advocated by ISO 8601, as it is not comprehensible to readers outside the United States. [5] [6] The day-month-year order has been increasing in usage since the early 1980s.
month–month: the 1940 peak period was May–July; the peak period was May–July 1940; (but the peak period was May 1940 – July 1940 uses a spaced en dash; see below) In certain cases where at least one item on either side of the en dash contains a space, then a spaced en dash ( {{ snd }} ) is used.
This list of style guide abbreviations provides the meanings of the abbreviations that are commonly used as short ways to refer to major style guides. They are used especially by editors communicating with other editors in manuscript queries, proof queries, marginalia , emails, message boards , and so on.
A comma is not used if only the month is given, such as June 1921. Avoid inserting "the year" before a year, and avoid "of" in items such as "April of 2008". 400 AD and 400 BC are correct, but so are 400 CE and 400 BCE. Use one style consistently in an article.
The Spanish AP stylebook is also referred to as the Manual de Estilo. The most recent print edition is the 2020–2022 AP Stylebook, available spiral-bound directly from AP, and as a perfect-bound paperback sold by Basic Books. Creation of AP Stylebook has been helmed by lead editor Paula Froke since 2016.
9/xi/06, 9.xi.06, 9-xi.06, 9/xi-06, 9.XI.2006, 9. XI. 2006 or 9 XI 2006 (using the Roman numeral for the month) – In the past, this was a common and typical way of distinguishing day from month and was widely used in many countries, but recently this practice has been affected by the general retreat from the use of Roman numerals.
Specialty abbreviations should not be confused with abbreviated months in limited cases: "nov." (nova) in biology e.g. Strobilops sp. nov. 1 - the "nov. 1" portion should not be refactored into a November date "dec." is sometimes used in cricket articles as short form for declaration and forfeiture - such cases should not be refactored to December