Template:USStatute/doc
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Usage
[edit]({{USStatute|Congress|OrdinalLaw|Volume|Page|Year|Month|Day|BillType|BillNumber}})
or
({{USStatute | 1=Congress | 2=OrdinalLaw | (3=Volume) | (4=Page) | (5=Year) | (6=Month) | (7=Day) | (8=BillType) | (9=BillNumber)}})
Public Law
- 1 = Congress
- 2 = Ordinal law
U.S. Statutes at large, optional
- 3 = Volume
- 4 = Page
Enactment date, optional
- 5 = Year, must be four-digit, YYYY
- 6 = Month, must be two-digit, MM, with leading zero if <10
- 7 = Day, must be two-digit, DD, with leading zero if <10
Bill, optional
- 8 = Bill type
- 9 = Bill number
This template uses {{USPL}}, {{USStat}}, and {{USBill}} along with the date and bill type.
Bill types are documented at Template:USBill/doc#Parameters.
This template links to external sites. External links should not normally be used in the body of an article; see Wikipedia:External links for editing guidelines covering acceptable and unacceptable uses. In particular the note about allowable exceptions.
Examples
[edit]- You enter: The '''NASA Flexibility Act of 2004''' ({{USStatute|108|201|118|461|2004|02|24}}) was passed...
- Template returns:The NASA Flexibility Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108–201 (text) (PDF), 118 Stat. 461, enacted February 24, 2004) was passed...
List of all United States legal citation templates
[edit]These templates are for citing U.S. codes and laws. To cite court cases, use {{Cite court}}, or, for the U.S. Supreme Court, use {{Ussc}}.
Parameters in (parentheses) are optional.
| Template(s) | Parameter(s) | Description | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | pipe | ||
| {{United States Code}}, {{USC}} | Title | Section | (end of section range) | (pipe) | United States Code (USC) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute | |
| {{United States Code with description}}, {{USC2}} | Title | Section | Description | USC via Cornell: description of the section | ||
| {{United States Code section}}, {{USCSec}} | Title | Section | (pipe) | USC via Cornell: when citing one of a series of USC sections, where it would be redundant to display the full citation for each section, this template can be used to display only the section number. | ||
| {{United States Code subsection}}, {{USCSub}} | Title | Section | Up to 6 levels of "sub" | Access to subsection/paragraph/subparagraph/clause/... to allow correct hyperlinking to the anchors embedded in the Cornell pages. | ||
| {{USCSub2}} | Title | Section | Up to 6 levels of "sub" | Combines {{USCSec}} and {{USCSub}}, eliminating redundancy when citing subsections / subparagraphs / &c. | ||
| {{United States Code clause}}, {{USCClause}} | Title | Section | Clause | USC via Cornell: allows clauses | ||
| {{Usc-title-chap}}, {{usctc}} | Title | Chapter | (Subchapter) | (pipe) | USC via Cornell: title/chapter links. | |
| {{USIRC}} | Section | Internal Revenue Code {{UnitedStatesCode}} | ||||
| {{USStat}} | Volume | Page | Statutes at Large via the Library of Congress, the Government Publishing Office, or Google Books | |||
| {{USPL}} | Congress | Ordinal law | (Description) | Public Law via GPO govinfo and https://uslaw.link/ | ||
| {{USStatute}} | Congress | Ordinal law | (Volume) | (Page) | Combines {{USPL}} and {{USStat}}, optional Year ({{{5}}}), Month ({{{6}}}), Day ({{{7}}}), optional {{USBill}}: (Bill type ({{{8}}}) and number ({{{9}}})) | |
| {{USBill}} | Congress | Bill type (S, SJ, HR, HJ) | Bill number (1-?) | (pipe) | Congressional bills via Congress.gov | |
| {{US House Vote}}, {{USHVote}} | Year | Vote | (pipe) | House roll-call vote via Clerk.House.gov | ||
| {{US Senate Vote}}, {{USSVote}} | Congress | Session | Vote | (pipe) | Senate roll-call vote via Senate.gov | |
| {{USCongRec}} | Year | Page | (date) | Congressional Record via GPO FDsys | ||
| {{Federal Register}}, {{USFR}} | Volume | Page | Federal Register via GPO FDsys | |||
| {{Code of Federal Regulations}}, {{CodeFedReg}}, {{USCFR}} | Volume | Part | Section | (Clause) | Code of Federal Regulations via GPO FDsys | |
| {{Executive Order}} | Number | Executive orders via Wikisource | ||||
| {{USTreaty}} | Congress | Treaty number | Treaties | |||
| {{United States Sentencing Guidelines}}, {{USSG}} | ChapterSection | Up to 7 levels of "sub" | (year) | Latest U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines (effective Nov. 1, 2012) via the U.S. Sentencing Commission website. Optional |year= references specific Guidelines applicable to a sentence imposed on or after Nov. 1st of that given year. | ||
| {{Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure}}, {{frcrp}} | Chapter | Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (current) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute | ||||
| {{Federal Rules of Civil Procedure}}, {{frcp}} | Rule | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (current) via courtrules.net | ||||
| {{Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure}}, {{frbp}} | Rule | Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (current) via courtrules.net | ||||
| {{Federal Rules of Evidence}}, {{fre}} | Rule | Federal Rules of Evidence (current) via courtrules.net | ||||
| Template(s) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | pipe | Description |
| Parameter(s) | ||||||