Editing Template:Cite court/doc (section)

==Description of fields==
''All fields are optional!''
; litigants : The  title of the case, such as "Miranda v. Arizona".  If a Wikipedia article using this exact string exists, a link will automatically be created.  Alternately, if an article exists but another name is desired for display, a wikilink may be specified; i.e., <code><nowiki>[[Case article|This v. That]]</nowiki></code>.
; litigants-force-plain : If given any value, disables the automatic link.
; reporter : The abbreviated term for whatever [[Reporter (law)|reporter]] is being referenced; i.e., "U.S." for the U.S. Supreme Court's "[[United States Reports]]". '''Important:''' "reporter" in this context means an official law publication, not a journalist.
; vol : Volume of the reporter. Only used for US case citations (and those given in the same format); otherwise, just include the information as part of {{para|reporter}} in the format given by the source.
; opinion : The opinion number, often the number of the first page of the case. Only used for US case citations (and those given in the same format); otherwise, just include the information as part of {{para|reporter}} in the format given by the source.
; [[Case citation#Pinpoint citations|pinpoint]] : Identifies a specific part of a decision, typically by page or paragraph number.
; court : The name or (optionally) standard abbreviation for the court being cited (e.g. "[[3d Cir.]]" or "[[M.D. Ala.]]" or "[[Allahabad High Court‎]], India"). If the abbreviated form would be a red link, use the long one (even if it is also a red link for now). See [https://web.archive.org/web/20171118125409/http://www.alwd.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pdf/CM2_Appendix4.pdf here] for a list of courts in the United States. 
; date : The year or full date in which the court rendered its decision. Alias: '''year'''.
; postscript : Controls the closing punctuation for a citation; defaults to a period (<code>.</code>); for no terminating punctuation, specify {{para|postscript|none}}. Additional text or templates beyond the terminating punctuation may generate an error message.
; quote
: Text quoted from the document. Displays enclosed in quotes and parentheses.
; ref
: Specify a reference name for [[Help:Shortened footnotes|shortened footnotes]] to link to, typically using {{tl|SfnRef}}. For instance, {{para|ref|{{tlx|SfnRef|Windsor|2013}}}} can be linked to from {{tlx|Sfn|Windsor|2013}}.
; url : A Web address for the court document(s).  For widely available US [[Law report|reporters]], [[Google Scholar]] typically presents the best reading interface<!--, although its URLs cannot be generated without doing a query<-->. One of several alternatives is ''[[FindLaw]]'', which, for [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] cases, has [[URL]]s of the form <code><nowiki>http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol={{{vol}}}&page={{{page}}}</nowiki></code>.  An article ''about'' the case should be cited with {{tl|Cite web}} or a specific {{cite xxx}} template.  ''This'' template is for citing a legal document and its wording directly.
; archive-url
: The URL of an [[Web archiving|archived]] copy of a document, at [[Internet Archive]] {{crossreference|(see [[Wikipedia:Using the Wayback Machine]])}}, [[archive.today]] {{crossreference|(see [[Help:Using archive.today]])}}, or other archival site.
; url-status 
: This parameter controls whether {{para|url}} or {{para|archive-url}} is linked in the citation. Use <code>live</code> to select {{para|url}} when the document is preemptively archived; otherwise the template will select {{para|archive-url}}. If there is no archived copy, use {{tlx|dead link}} rather than this parameter.