Citation Chap. 6
Law 006 with Ravitch at Michigan State University
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2) Section 145, subsection (b)(2), of title 6 of the current United States Code, published in 2006. No amendments to this section appear in any supplement or pocket part.
6 U.S.C. § 145(b)(2) (2006).
1) Article three, section one of the Constitution of the United States.
U.S. Const. art. III, § 1.
3) Subsections (a) through (d) of section 204 of title 23 of the current United States Code, published in 2006. No amendments to this section appear in any supplement or pocket part.
23 U.S.C. § 204(a)-(d) (2006).
4) Subsections (1) through (4) of section 2001 of title 16 of the current United States Code. Part of this citation appears in the 2006 main volume, and part appears in the 2008 Supplement II.
16 U.S.C. § 2001(1)-(4) (2006 & Supp. II 2008).
5) Section 3007(b) of title 7 of the current United States Code. Part of this citation appears in the 2006 main volume, and part appears in the 2009 Supplement III.
7 U.S.C. § 3007(b) (2006 & Supp. III 2009).
6) Subsection (a)(1)(C) of section 303 of title 37 of the current United States Code, published in 2006.
37 U.S.C. § 303(a)(1)(C) (2006).
7) Section 1769(f) of title 42 of the current United States Code, published in 2006. The entire text of this section appears in the 2008 Supplement II.
42 U.S.C. § 1769(f) (Supp. II 2008).
8) Rule 1391(a) of the current Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, published in 2006 in the Appendix to title 28 of the United States Code.
Fed. R. Civ. P. 1391(a).
9) Section 706(d)(2) of the current Internal Revenue Code, published in 2006 in title 26 of the current United States Code.
I.R.C. § 706(d)(2).
10) Rule 20 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, published in 2006 in the Appendix to title 28 of the United States Code.
Fed. R. Crim. P. 20.
A full citation to a federal statute includes three basic elements:
1. the __;
2. the __ in which the act may be found;
3. a __ indicating either:
3a. the year the source was _ (used for code citations); or
3b. the year the statute was __ (used for citations to session laws)
official name of the act
published source
parenthetical
published
passed
Statutes may be cited to a current official or unofficial __, an official or privately published collection of __, or a __.
code
session laws
secondary source
Whenever possible, cite to the __ code for statutes currently in force.
current official
A code is a set of books containing all of the __ in force in a given jurisdiction, organized by subject matter. The official code for federal statutes is the __, which is abbreviated as "U.S.C." Codes are frequently divided into __, which are then further subdivided into _ and __.
statutes
United States Code
titles
chapterssections
A statute citation to an official or unofficial code will tell the reader where the act can be found by listing:
1. the __;
2. the __ name of the code;
3. the __ numbers in which the act is codified; and
4. the year of the cited __ (not the year the act was passed.)
title number
abbreviatedsection
code edition
Citations to an unofficial code, such as an annotated code, must also include the name of the __ in the date __.
publisher
parenthetical
The United States Code is only codified once every __ Therefore, citations to the U.S.C. should be cited of the appropriate codifying year, such as 2000 or 2006.
six years.
Cite to the __ if the official or unofficial code is unavailable or insufficient, for example, when the statute does not yet appear in a code or when you need to refer to the historical fact of the statute's enactment.
session laws
Session laws are a bound collection of all __ enacted by a given legislature, arranged __ in the order they were passed. These session laws will later be "codified" and inserted into the official code, which is arranged by subject matter rather than by year of enactment.
statutes
chronologically
The basic formula for a federal statute citation follows:
__
Title# U.S.C. ^s section# (Date).
When citing federal statute, if your reader would need to consult both the main volume and the supplement, then you must include both pieces of information connected by an ampersand (&).
Formula: __
Title# U.S.C. ^s Section# (Year & Supp. Year).
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