Style Guide

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dates

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Always use Arabic figures, without st, nd, rd, or th:

The record was broken May 10.

See months and years.

months

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Capitalize the names of months in all uses. When a month is used with a specific date, abbreviate only Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec.:

Feb. 12, 1911, Aug. 18

Spell out when using alone, or with a year alone:

February 1911, August

When a phrase lists only a month and a year, do not separate the year with commas:

January 1897, May 1934

When a phrase refers to a month, day, and year, set off the year with commas:

Thursday, June 3. Oct. 15, 1923.

See dates and years.

years

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When a phrase refers to a month and day within the current year of the featured season, do not include the year, except for opening and closing dates, SEO, and Infobox information:

The actors performed on July 12.

If the reference is to a past or future year, opening and closing dates, SEO, and Infobox information, include the year and set it off with commas:

The group performed previously on June 20, 1905.

Use an s without an apostrophe to indicate spans of decades or centuries:

the 1910s, the 1900s

Years are an exception to the general rule in numerals that a figure is not used to start a sentence:

1918 was a record-breaking year.

See dates and months.