Abbreviations of Months of the Year, Days of the Week, and Other Abbreviations of Time

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Abbreviations of Months of the Year

Please note: Abbreviations used on this page denote common usage unrelated to documenting sources. When documenting sources using MLA style, the months with four or fewer letters, e.g. May, June, and July are not abbreviated, the remaining months Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec. are abbreviated. When documenting sources using APA style, no abbreviations are used, all months are spelled out in full.

1. January - Jan.	2 . February - Feb.
3. March - Mar.	4. April - Apr.
5. May - May	6. June - Jun.
7. July - Jul.	8. August - Aug.
9. September - Sep. or Sept.	10. October - Oct.
11. November - Nov.	12. December - Dec.

See also:

Origin of the names of the months from Encyclopedia Mythica.

Seasons of the Year

(Typically in North America)

spring - March, April, May

summer - June, July, August

autumn or fall - September, October, November

winter - December, January, February

See also:

The Seasons on Earth from Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Earth's Seasons. Seasons are the result of the tilt of the Earth's axis, from Enchanted Learning.

Abbreviations of Days of the Week

1. Sunday - Sun.	2. Monday - Mon.
3. Tuesday - Tu., Tue., or Tues.	4. Wednesday - Wed.
5. Thursday - Th., Thu., Thur., or Thurs.	6. Friday - Fri.
7. Saturday - Sat.

See also:

The Origins of the Days of the Week.
Symbols for Days of the Week - Historical symbols for the days of the week, by D. Glenn Arthur, Jr., Baltimore, MD.
Day of the Week - Find out what day of the week did a certain date fall on, by Stephen C. Phillips, University of Southampton, UK.

Other Abbreviations of Time

second - sec.	minute - min.
hour - hr.	week - wk.
ante meridiem (before noon) - a.m.	post meridiem (after noon) - p.m.
midnight - 12:00 a.m.	noon - 12:00 p.m.
month - mo.	year - yr.
century - cent.	before Christ - BC or B.C. (e.g. 30 BC)
anno Domini (in the year of our Lord) after birth of Christ - AD or A.D. (e.g. AD 2005)
before common era - BCE or B.C.E. (same as BC) (e.g. 30 BCE)	common era - CE or C.E. (Christian Era, same as AD) (e.g. 2005 CE)

Sources:

"Common Abbreviations." The New Lexicon Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language. Canadian ed. New York: Lexicon, 1988, CA1-8.
(Above reference out of print. Closest match currently available: Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 1996 ed.)
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: MLA, 2003, 263.

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