Template:Usgovpd/doc

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Usage

This template should be placed at the end of a citation if the article incorporates text from a work of the United States government that is not under copyright. It will add appropriate categories to the page, and provides a message for proper attribution.

Example

...article text.<ref>SAMHSA "Some dry government document" (2017) {{usgovpd}}</ref>

This would display as

...article text.^[1]

...and in the references section as

Rationale

While I frequently use US government works, I don't use the

Ideally, this would accept a single parameter, which would be the name of a government agency, which would then place the article in the appropriate subcategory of Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government.