Gather the information required to cite the Federal Act. Collect the name of the Act, its location in the U.S. Code (the section number and volume number,) the year of publication, and page numbers that the Act appears on.
Write the name of the Act, followed by a comma. Write the phase "Pub. L. No.," followed by the page numbers in which the Act appears (followed by a comma.) Insert the section number, followed by the volume number. Write the year that the Act was published in parentheses, followed by a period. For example, the Americans with Disabilities Act should be cited with this: "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Pub. L. No. 101-336, § 2, 104 Stat. 328 (1991)."
Cite the Federal Act within the paper by writing the name of the act followed by the year. For example, a sentence can state that the "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 protects qualified Americans with disabilities from being discriminated from gaining employment." Writers can also write the year of the Act's publication in parentheses following the name.