Creating a Date Variable

Hello,
I'm trying to query for a range of dates Month, Year to Month, Year
As you can see, the current format of my tables are that [month] = # (1 is January, 2 is February, etc) and [year] in two separate fields.
How do I create a variable where it takes both month and year fields into a useable date format where I can query a range of months.
For example, if I want to query October 2013 - March 2014, the fields for [month] and [year] would be 10,2013; 11,2013; 12,2013; 1,2014; 2,2014; 3,2014

How can I query this variable? Do I have to create the variable in the universe rather than the report? And will the system recognize this as a date format?
Does it matter if I used /? Is it possible for the formula to register the month name instead of a number (ex. Jan-2014 instead of 1,2014)
This is what it looks like so far:

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