Template:USPL
Description
[edit]This links to a specific Act of Congress as a Public Law via:
- the United States Government Printing Office (http://www.gpo.gov), for 104th Congress to present;
- THOMAS through Cornell, for 100th Congress through 103rd Congress; or
- No link for 1st Congress through 99th Congress.
Usage
[edit]Use: {{USPL|Congress|Order}}
Examples
[edit]The 14th Public Law of the 93rd Congress:
- {{USPL|93|14}} returns Pub.L. 93−14
The 50th Public Law of the 103rd Congress:
- {{USPL|103|50}} returns Pub.L. 103−50
The 222nd Public Law of the 109th Congress:
- {{USPL|109|222}} returns Pub.L. 109−222
Note
[edit]To make this work when {{{2}}} is not a 3-digit number, #if was used.
List of United States legal citation templates
[edit]View WP version Parameters in (parentheses) are optional.
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| {{usc-sd}} | title | (section) | (part) | (chapter) | (subtitle) | (subchapter) | (posttitle) | (endtext) | (plainlinks) | (pipe) | United States Code via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute |
| {{UnitedStatesCode}}, {{USC}}, {{usc}} | title | section | (end of section range) | (pipe) | USC via Cornell | ||||||
| {{UnitedStatesCode2}}, {{USC2}}, {{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 | (levels of "sub") | Access to subsection/paragraph/subparagraph/clause/... to allow correct hyperlinking to the anchors embedded in the Cornell pages. | |||||||
| {{USCSub2}}, {{uscsub2}} | title | section | (levels of "sub") | Combines 'USCSec' and 'USCSub', eliminating redundancy when citing subsections / subparagraphs / &c. | |||||||
| {{usc-clause}} | title | section | clause | USC via Cornell: allows clauses | |||||||
| {{usc-title-chap}}, {{usctc}} | title | chapter | (subchapter) | (pipe) | USC via Cornell: title/chapter links | ||||||
| {{USStat}}, {{usstat}} | volume | page | Statutes at Large via the Library of Congress, the Government Printing Office, or Google Books | ||||||||
| {{USPL}}, {{uspl}} | congress | ordinal law | Public Law via GPO Access | ||||||||
| {{USStatute}} | congress | ordinal law | (volume) | (page) | Combines {{tl|USPL}} and {{tl|USStat}}, then add optional Year (<nowiki>{{{5}}}</nowiki>), Month (<nowiki>{{{6}}}</nowiki>), Day (<nowiki>{{{7}}}</nowiki>) | ||||||
| {{USBill}} | congress | bill type (S, SJ, HR, HJ) | bill number (1–?) | (pipe) | Congressional bills via THOMAS | ||||||
| {{USHRollCall}}, {{USHVote}} | year | vote | House Roll call vote via Clerk.House.gov | ||||||||
| {{USSRollCall}}, {{USSVote}} | congress | session | vote | Senate Roll call vote via Senate.gov | |||||||
| {{USCongRec}} | year | section | page | (date) | Congressional Record via GPO Access | ||||||
| {{Federal Register}}, {{USFR}}, {{USFedReg}} | volume | page | Federal Register via GPO Access | ||||||||
| {{Federal reporter}} | series | volume | case | (+ optional parameters) | Federal Reporter via Wikisource or OpenJurist | ||||||
| {{CodeFedReg}}, {{USCFR}} | volume | part | section | (clause) | Code of Federal Regulations via GPO Access | ||||||
| {{ExecutiveOrder}} | number | Executive Orders via Wikisource | |||||||||
| {{USSG}} | chapter | section | U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines (2009) via the U.S. Sentencing Commission website | ||||||||
| {{USSGSub}} | chapter | section | (up to 3 levels of "sub") | U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines (2009) via the U.S. Sentencing Commission website | |||||||
| Template(s) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Description |
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