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The following style and formatting guidelines are used throughout this website in original news reporting and pages related to Kids TV History and Episode Lists.

Times and Dates

All times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (UTC−05:00) or Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−04:00). The Eastern Time Zone may be abbreviated as ET, EST, EDT or simply Eastern. Other time zones may be listed but aren’t used as default. They include Central Time (CT, CST, CDT), Mountain Time (MT, MST, MDT) and Pacific Time (PT, PST, PDT).

The 12-hour clock is always used. The listing of ante meridiem and post meridiem can be listed in multiple ways, either with or without periods and capitalized or not: a.m., A.M., am, AM, or simply a and p.m., P.M., pm, PM, or simply p. Their use will always follow a digit and should be understood by the reader. Examples: 12:30pm, 6:15a, 9:00 p.m., 7 A.M., 10a

A day begins at 6:00:00am and ends 24 hours later at 5:59:59am. This is known as a “TV day” and has been used for decades as the standard start/end of a day for most TV networks. It’s also recognized as such by Nielsen Media Research data.

Days are either written in full or shortened to three letters: Monday or Mon, Tuesday or Tue, Wednesday or Wed, Thursday or Thu, Friday or Fri, Saturday or Sat, and Sunday or Sun.

A “TV week” starts on Monday and ends on Sunday.

Months are either written in full or shortened to the following letters: January or Jan, February or Feb, March or Mar, April or Apr, May, June or Jun, July or Jul, August or Aug, September or Sept, October or Oct, November or Nov, and December or Dec.

Dates are either written out as the full month, the non-leading zero-digit day, and the four-digit year or it is shortened to its short month name, the non-leading zero-digit day, and the four-digit year with each separated by a dash (-). Examples: January 18, 1997 or Jan-18-1997; September 23, 2006 or Sept-23-2006.

A comma is never used to separate a month and year. Example: January 1991 not January, 1991.

TV Show and Episode Titles

To the best extent possible, all TV show, movie, and episode titles are written as they either appear on-screen, are officially used by a TV network, or legally noted in copyright or trademark listings.

For example, the 2010 live-action Nickelodeon sitcom starring Victoria Justice is always written as VICTORiOUS, not Victorious.

At times, it may be useful to shorten long TV show titles for brevity in writing. This is done sparingly and the full title is usually listed first. Example: The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius is often shortened to simply Jimmy Neutron.

Episode Numbering and TV vs. Production Seasons

Episode numbers will always refer to production numbers or codes used by the network, not the airing order. There will never be references such as S4E13, as that format (which is commonly used online) refers almost always to the airing order.

Production seasons will always take priority over TV airing seasons. Example: iCarly season two was officially filmed as 45 total episodes. Online listings like to split the season, but that was not how it was produced nor how it is marketed by the network to this day.

Movie Release Year Listings

It is common to find movie titles listed with the year of their North American release in parenthesis on most TV listings. This website will often do the same, but only for movies considered to be theatrical releases, not for TV or direct-to-video movies. For example: The Rugrats Movie (1998), but not Rugrats Tales from the Crib: Snow White.