Template:USStatute
{{USPL|Congress|Ordinal|Title}} missing Congress
 | This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS. |
Usage
({{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, notice the "exemption clause" that allows this template, along with its external links, to be used in an article's body.
Examples
- 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
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 | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | pipe | ||
| {{UnitedStatesCode}}, {{USC}} | Title | Section | (end of section range) | (pipe) | United States Code (USC) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute | |
| {{UnitedStatesCode2}}, {{USC2}} | Title | Section | Description | USC via Cornell: description of the section | ||
| {{UnitedStatesCodeSec}}, {{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. | ||
| {{UnitedStatesCodeSub}}, {{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. | ||
| {{UnitedStatesCodeClause}}, {{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 | House roll-call vote via Clerk.House.gov | |||
| {{US Senate Vote}}, {{USSVote}} | Congress | Session | Vote | 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 | |||
| {{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 | |||
| {{UnitedStatesSentencingGuidelines}}, {{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.
| ||
| {{frcrp}} | Chapter | Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (current) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute | ||||
| {{frcp}} | Rule | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (current) via federalrulesofcivilprocedure.org | ||||
| {{frbp}} | Rule | Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (current) via federalrulesofbankruptcyprocedure.org | ||||
| {{frap}} | Chapter | Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (current) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute | ||||
| {{fre}} | Rule | Federal Rules of Evidence (current) via rulesofevidence.org | ||||
| Template(s) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | pipe | Description |
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