Template:USStatute

Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]

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.Tooltip w:Public Law (United States) 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
	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.
{{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
{{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
Template(s)	1	2	3	4	pipe	Description
	Parameter(s)

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:USStatute/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.