📅Formatting Dates

Months

Month	Abbreviation
January	Jan.
February	Feb.
March	Mar.
April	Apr.
May	May
June	June
July	July
August	Aug.
September	Sep.
October	Oct.
November	Nov.
December	Dec.

For accessed dates, add the day, month and year.

e.g. Accessed 21 Sep. 2022.

Source Type	How much detail is needed?	Example
Book, Movie, Song	Just the year	Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2018.
Web page, YouTube video, Newspaper article, Magazine article	The day, month, and year.	Godwin, Richard. “If We Want to Save the Planet, the Future of Food Is Insects.” The Guardian, 8 May 2021, www.theguardian.com/food/2021/may/08/if-we-want-to-save-the-planet-the-future-of-food-is-insects. Accessed 20 Sept. 2022.
Journal article	Month or season and year.	Williams, Tony. “Space, Place, and Spectacle: The Crisis Cinema of John Woo.” Cinema Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, winter 1997, pp. 67–84. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1225775. Accessed 21 Sep. 2022.