Template:Cite act/doc

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

Usage
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:
 * , cited in

Parameter common usage notes

 * title – Outputs in upright roman case (not italics or quotes). Will strip any outside formatting.
 * script-title – Can also meet the requirement for a  field. Requires an appropriate ISO language prefix, such as el:Ελληνικά.
 * trans-title – Requires  or , 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, and will do so in a future version of this template. IndigoBook (US) suggests to enclose the entire   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  in parentheses. But if no title fields are specified (including   and  ), then case title is set to the   field, and CS1's none. (alias act-type)
 * prefix – Indicates how the act index/number is represented, such as,  , etc. Followed by a non-breaking space, then the  /.
 * index – now has (consistent with CS1 report-type templates) the aliases docket and number, but appends this to the  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 /  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  field.
 * id – CS1 parameter. This is typically a unique identifier for linking to digital catalogs. (Suggested uses: and .) (It is not, unlike in CS1 report-type templates, an alias with docket and number.)

Planned deprecation (use alternatives)

 * article – The  pair is now appended to the   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)

Deprecation or significant change from previous version

 * 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.

CoiNS metadata
The following fields pass metadata via the CS1 base parameter:

Examples


Major legal citation style comparison
See larger list of citation style comparisons in

Note for April 2024 comparisons to sandbox: series=reporter; firstpage->firstpage+at; authority=author; year->date IndigoBook comparison test: US regulation republished Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 § 103, 17 U.S.C.A. § 1201(e) (West).

IndigoBook: US Code historical Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. § 223 (2012 & Supp. I 2013).

IndigoBook: US constitutions  art. I, § 8, cl. 8.

IndigoBook: US Congress session law FASTER Act of 2021, Pub. L. No. 117-11, 135 Stat. 262 (2021).

IndigoBook: US Congress hearing Protecting Federal Judiciary Employees from Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, and Other Workplace Misconduct: Hearing Before the H. Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, 116th Cong. (2020), https://www.congress.gov/event/116th-congress/house-event/110505.

IndigoBook: US Congress report  No. 99-146, at 363, as reprinted in 1986 U.S.C.C.A.N. 42, 412.

OSCOLA has no copyright claims that I can tell OSCOLA: Statutory instruments, etc Penalties for Disorderly Behaviour (Amendment of Minimum Age) Order 2004, SI 2004/3166, ss 1(1) and 4(3)(a).

OOSCOLA: Bills Academies HL Bill (2010-11) 1, cl 8(2)

OSCOLA: Command papers/treaties Department for International Development, Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future (White Paper, Cm 7656, 2009) ch 5

OSCOLA: Hansard HC Deb 3 February 1977, vol 389, col WA261

OSCOLA: Committee reports: Health Committee, Patient Safety (HC 2008–09, 151–I) paras 173–75  Joint Committee on Human Rights, Legislative Scrutiny: Equality Bill (second report);  Digital Economy Bill (2009–10, HL 73, HC 425) 14–16

See e.g. Murdoch Univ Library AGLC Referencing Guide:

Legislation:

AGLC Acts: Jaywalking Act 1990 (NSW).

AGLC Bills: Elections Amendment (Grassroots Funding) Bill 2011 (Cth).

AGLC Orders : Territory Court Rules 1971 (Cth) (at 11 November 2011) ords 5–7, 9 r 2B .

AGLC Policy : Department of Housing Affairs (Cth), Procedures Advice Manual 2: Division 1.4 – Appointment to nominated positions (citizen approval), para 12.2.

AGLC Explanatory Memorandum/Notes/Statement 	: Explanatory Memorandum, Charter of Decency Bill 2010 (Vic).

AGLC Parliamentary Papers -- Hansard 	: Mineral Resources Committee, Parliament of Queensland, Inquiry into the Global Warming Statement Process in Queensland (Parliamentary Paper No 19, September 2001).

AGLC Second Reading Speech (in Hansard) 	:  Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, Senate, 11 February 2004, 29 (Robert Ross, Attorney-General).

AGLC Treaty: Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of France Providing Nukes, signed 1 August 2000, [2001] ATS 21 (entered into force 20 December 2000).

TemplateData
{	"description": "Legal subtemplate wrapping cite_report; see CS1 for details", "params": { "article": { "aliases": [ "chapter" ],			"description": "For words like \"Annex III\", \"Article IV\", \"Subsection 2(a)\", to separate from article= field, which would be numerical. (Now the entire article-section pinpoint should go in the orig-section= field.)", "deprecated": true },		"article-type": { "aliases": [ "articletype" ],			"type": "string", "deprecated": true, "description": "For words like \"Annex\", \"Article\", \"Subsection\", to separate from article= field, which would be numerical. (Now the entire article-section pinpoint should go in the orig-section= field.)" },		"title": { "description": "If title, script-title, and/or trans-title are set, title is passed directly to the CS1 template. If not set, it is instead populated as described in the type parameter. CS1 cite_report sets rft.title metadata", "type": "string" },		"type": { "aliases": [ "act-type" ],			"description": "Populates the CS1 type parameter, unless title fields are empty, in which case we set title->type and type->none. Followed by prefix and index number, but specifying these fields may be unnecessary in many cases. No metadata.", "type": "string", "suggestedvalues": [ "HR", "HR 173", "Decret", "Decret no. 117 du 2008", "HL Deb" ]		},		"index": { "aliases": [ "number", "docket" ],			"description": "The identifier number of the legislation. (This is separate from the id parameter, which is used particularly for directly linking to digital catalog identifiers.)", "type": "string", "example": "44/R/330 ; XXIV-2008a" },		"prefix": { "description": "Followed by a non-breaking-space, then the index number.", "type": "string", "suggestedvalues": [ "No.", "#"			]		},		"italics": { "description": "If set to any non-empty value, will output the title= CS1 field in italics. (Implemented by changing base template from cite_report to cite_tech_report.)", "type": "boolean", "default": "null" },		"firstpage": { "description": "The first page at which the cited document is found in the reporter publication. Do not include more than one number. This is prepended before the pinpoint pages in the at= parameter.", "type": "number" },		"at": {}, "pinpoint": { "aliases": [ "at" ],			"description": "Sections and paragraphs (neutral) or pages (non-neutral) in the published source that are being cited by the body text. ", "type": "string", "suggestedvalues": [ "s. IV(a) para. 4", "pp. 22, 117-18", "ch 3 art vi" ]		},		"authority": { "aliases": [ "author", "authority1", "author1" ],			"label": "authority", "description": "The administrative body responsible for producing the act/law/document, that is not otherwise directly an author (use author=) or indirectly a publisher (use publisher= or institution=).", "type": "string", "suggestedvalues": [ "Subcommittee on Foreign Relations", "People's Congress" ]		},		"orig-date": { "description": "Passed as CS1 parameter and output in brackets next to date= field. May freely carry extra information related to date of debate, enactment, revision, etc. The date= field is for the date of publication in which the source can be found.", "example": "[] ; [  ] : \"Enacted by ANC on 2000-12-31\"", "type": "string", "suggestedvalues": [ "Introduced December 1999 and amended January 2000" ]		},		"parallel": { "description": "Parallel citation to a published source (reporter/journal), typically when a style requires citing both a neutral/government and commercial publication. Include volume/year and pinpoint of parallel citation, including brackets. Prepended to id= field.", "example": ", , .", "type": "string", "suggestedvalues": [ "12 F. Rep. 20", "[1999] UKHL 27" ]		},		"id": { "description": "As CS1 field, includes any number of digital catalog or other identifiers, including templates.", "type": "string", "suggestedvalues": [ "OJEU 117", ""			]		},		"mode": { "description": "As CS1 field. If set to mode=cs2, the sepator between fields is a comma \",\" and there is no postfix. (Default cs1 separator and full stop is a period \".\").", "type": "content", "suggestedvalues": [ "cs1", "cs2" ],			"default": "cs1" },		"docket": {}, "orig-section": { "description": "Reference/pinpoint article/chapter/section numbers in the original act/law/document. This is typically a source-neutral format, and is separate from the page= at= pinpoint= fields of the published version of the document. If the section has a text title, put the text in the chapter= field", "example": ", ", "type": "string", "suggestedvalues": [ "art. 4 s. 3(a)", "ch 5 ss 2" ]		},		"script-title": {}, "trans-title": {} } }