Template documentationDescription
This links to a specific Act of Congress as a Public Law.
This template links to external sites. External links should not normally be used in the body of an article; see OODA WIKI:External links for discussion of acceptable and unacceptable uses.
Usage
{{USPL | Congress | Order | Description}}or
{{USPL | Congress | Order}}Examples
Public law # 222 of the 109th Congress:
- {{USPL|109|222|Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005}}
returns
- Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 109–222: Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 (text) (PDF)
and
- {{USPL|109|222}}
returns
- Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 109–222 (text) (PDF)
Public law # 50 of the 102nd Congress:
- {{USPL|102|50|Niobrara Scenic River Designation Act of 1991}}
returns
- Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 102–50: Niobrara Scenic River Designation Act of 1991
and
- {{USPL|102|50}}
returns Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 102–50
Public law # 14 of the 93rd Congress:
- {{USPL|93|14|A bill to extend the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, for 1 year}}
returns
- Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 93–14: A bill to extend the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, for 1 year
and
- {{USPL|93|14}}
returns
For several days, weeks, or even months after a new public law is enacted, links to GPO's website do not work. Consequently, the template displays something like this, for a hypothetical PL 118-999:
- {{USPL|118|999}}
returns
- Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 118–999 (menu; GPO has not yet published law)
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.
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| {{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.
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| {{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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