Template:Cite act/doc

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This template is designed for citing legislative acts, legal documents, laws, and other governmental codes.

This is a wrapper template of Citation Style 1 (CS1)'s {{Cite report}} template. It supports nearly all standard CS1 parameters with exceptions as noted below.

As the resources cited in this template will generally be primary sources, editors are advised to be familiar with Wikipedia's citation guidelines. A common usage is indirect citation, in which a secondary source references a primary source:

• United States Constitution (1st Amendment)., cited in James Roark. The American Promise. p. 2.

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{{cite act |type= |index= |date= |article= |article-type= |legislature= |title= |script-title= |trans-title= |page= |url= |access-date= |via= |language=}}

• |title= – Outputs in upright roman case (not italics or quotes). Will strip any outside formatting.
• |script-title= – Can also meet the requirement for a title field. Requires an appropriate ISO language prefix, such as |script-title=el:Ελληνικά.
• |trans-title= – Requires title or script-title, and outputs after in brackets.
• |orig-section= – Passes directly to CS1. Will output in quotation marks, and strip any outside formatting. (alias: |orig-sec=)
• |reporter= – alias of CS1 |series=, and implicitly should be what |volume= applies to; planned in later implementation to map to |journal= (not feasible with current wrapper).
• |volume= – For the |reporter= field, the volume is whatever information is needed to find the correct issue of the periodical in which the act/law/document is published. (So for a periodical indexed by month-year, this can be a date.) In legal citations (US and UK), this precedes the reporter, and will do so in a future version of this template. IndigoBook (US) suggests to enclose the entire volume field in [brackets] if it is wordy. Do not do this yourself, as it corrupts the metadata – when the base template implementation is changed this will be done automatically.
• |date= – Alternatively: |year=; passes directly to CS1
• |type= – Fills the corresponding CS1 parameter, which outputs after the title in parentheses. But if no |title= fields are specified (including script-title and trans-title), then case |title= is set to the type prefix index field, and CS1's |type=none. (alias |act-type=)
• |prefix= – Indicates how the act index/number is represented, such as = no., = #, etc. Followed by a non-breaking space, then the index/number.
• |index= – now has (consistent with CS1 report-type templates) the aliases |docket= and |number=, but appends this to the type string.
• |firstpage= – If the reporter/journal indexes its citations by their first page, then list it here (the first number after the reporter name). This is prepended to the at/pinpoint field.
• |pinpoint= – section, page, ch. numbers in the published source being cited. Include the "s." "pp." or "ch." (with or without stops depending on consistent style); alias to CS1's |at=.
• |parallel= – for a parallel citation (typically in a requirement for both a neutral/government and commercial publisher); input the reporter with volume and pinpoint as it appears in the original citation (including brackets); for now prepends to id field.
• |id= – CS1 parameter. This is typically a unique identifier for linking to digital catalogs. (Suggested uses: {{CELEX}} and {{ECLI}}.) (It is not, unlike in CS1 report-type templates, an alias with |docket= and |number=.)

• |article= – The <article-type> <article> pair is now appended to the type string above. Because |article=, |section=, etc. are aliases for |chapter= in CS1, it is recommended to use |orig-section=, as this is the source-neutral reference to the original act/document. Sections/articles within the published text are cited using the |at= parameter, using abbreviations like "art.", "para.", "§" (with full stops omitted only if consistent with the Wikipedia article's citation style).
• |legislature= – now an alias of CS1 |institution= and |publisher=.
• |article-type= – Appends string to |article= (alias: |articletype=) (deprecation planned)

• |df= – Called from CS1 (or controlled by user settings); previous template usage deprecated
• |odf= – DEPRECATED

Note on translation parameters: For citing acts in non-Anglophone jurisdictions, it is suggested to include all details, including the abbreviations for "article" and "section", in the translation.

The following fields pass metadata via the CS1 base parameter:

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See larger list of citation style comparisons in Template:Cite act/testcases § Major legal citation style comparison

{{cite act |title=Digital Millennium Copyright Act |year=1998 |article=§ 103 |volume=17 |series=U.S.C.A. |at=§ 1201(e) }}

{{cite act |title=Communications Act of 1934 |year=1934 |orig-date=2012 & Supp. I 2013 |volume=47 |institution=U.S.C. |at=§ 223 }}

{{cite act 
|title=U.S. Const. |article=art. I, § 8, cl. 8. }}

{{cite act |title=FASTER Act |date=2021 |type=Pub. L. |number=117-11 |series=Stat. |volume=135 |at=262 }}

{{cite act |title=Protecting...Internet |year=2020 |legislature=116th Cong. |url=https://www.congress.gov/event/116th-congress/house-event/110505 }}

{{cite act 
|type=S. Rep. |number=99-146 |volume=1986 |series=U.S.C.C.A.N. |page=42, 412 }}

{{cite act |title=Penalties for Disorderly Behaviour (Amendment of Minimum Age) |date=2004 |type=SI |number=2004/3166 |series=Stat. |volume=135 |at=ss 1(1) and 4(3)(a) |mode=cs2}}

{{cite act |title=Academies HL Bill |legislature=House of Lords (2010-11) |volume=1 |at=cl 8(2) |mode=cs2}}

{{cite act |author=Department for International Development |title=Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future |type=White Paper |number=Cm 7656 |date=2009 |at=ch 5}}

{{cite act |type=HC Deb |date=3 February 1977 |volume=389 |at=col WA261}}

{{cite act |title=Digital Economy Bill |legislature= UK Parliament 2009-10 |type= HL 73, HC 425 |at=14-16}}

{{cite act |title=Jaywalking |type=Act |date=1990 |location=NSW |italics=y}}

{{cite act |title=Elections Amendment (Grassroots Funding) |type=Bill |date=2011  |location=Cth}}

{{cite act |title=Territory Court Rules 1971 |at=ords 5–7, 9 r 2B |location=Cth |italics=y |url=https://www.actlawsociety.asn.au/documents/item/1911 |access-date=11 November 2011}}

{{cite act |author=Department of Housing Affairs |title=Procedures Advice Manual 2 |chapter=Division 1.4 – Appointment to nominated positions (citizen approval) |at=para 12.2 |location=Cth |italics=y |url=https://www.actlawsociety.asn.au/documents/item/1911 |access-date=11 November 2011}}

{{cite act |title=Charter of Decency Bill 2010 |type=Explanatory Memorandum |location=Vic}}

{{cite act |author=Mineral Resources Committee |legislature=Parliament of Queensland |title=Inquiry into the Global Warming Statement Process in Queensland |type=Parliamentary Paper No 19 |date=September 2001}}

{{cite act |title=Commonwealth |legislature=Senate |series=Parliamentary Debates |type=Parliamentary Paper |at=59 |date=11 February 2004 |author=Robert Ross, Attorney-General}}

{{cite act |title=Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of France Providing Nukes |orig-date=signed 1 August 2000, entered into force 20 December 2000 |date=2001 |series=ATS |at=21 }}