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How to write dates in ap style. Formatting dates days months times and years in ap style dates and times have a number of formatting considerations. Ap style was developed and is maintained by the associated press the worlds oldest news service. Month abbreviations ap style. When a month is used with a specific date abbreviate only jan feb aug sept oct nov and dec.
Monday day july 1 month date 2018 year. To write a story in ap style you need to abide by the associated press handbook of rules for punctuation capitalization and certain other details. Ap style is simply a standardized way of writing everything from dates to street addresses to job titles. In ap style you should capitalize the names of months in all of their uses.
All other months should always be completely spelled outalso all months should be spelled out when they stand alone or are alone with a year. Do i capitalize months in ap style. Output date fields as ap style. There are some 5000 rules in all and they are frequently updated.
One of the first things a student in a beginning journalism course learns about is associated press style or ap style for short. A good grasp of the basics will ensure that your news story achieves the ap goals of consistency and. According to the ap style book dates should be formatted as such dates always use numerical figures without st nd rd or th days of the week days of the week should be capitalized and not abbreviated. Dates times numbers and measurements.
