If your template is being created for documents that should be declared as records, you can specify the declare record behavior and a declare record entry template. The Author Record Entry Template Access site preference determines which users see this step.
To specify declare record settings
NOTE If you selected the Yes, use entry template for checkin check box in the Set properties step, subsequent checkins of the document will also use this template. If you use major and minor versions of documents, it's likely that the user might not want minor versions declared as records. Therefore, instead of selecting Always declare, a better choice might be to select Optionally declare, which allows the user to choose whether to declare the version being checked in.