AGLC4 Rule 1.11.1: Dates and Time: Full Date

A full date is written as day, month and year with no commas, and the day is a plain numeral rather than an ordinal. A weekday, if included, comes first without a comma.

AGLC4 page 31

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 31
Day Month Year

A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.

Formatting

  • Order: day, month, year, separated by single spaces.
  • Month written in full as a word.
  • No commas anywhere in the date.
  • Day as a cardinal numeral, never with an ordinal suffix.
  • An optional weekday precedes the day, with no comma after it.

In the text

15 June 1985 [Not: 15th June 1985]

Thursday 6 March 1987 [Not: Thursday, 6 March 1987]

Quoted from the Guide, page 31

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 31
  • 15th June 1985
    the day must not be an ordinal
  • Thursday, 6 March 1987
    no comma after the weekday in a full date

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 31
  • 15 June 1985
  • Thursday 6 March 1987

See also

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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.