ietf2bibtex(1)
document creates a BibTeX entry for an IETF document (i.e.
Description
ietf2bibtex(1) General Commands Manual ietf2bibtex(1)
NAME
ietf2bibtex — Create BibTeX entry for IETF document
SYNOPSIS
ietf2bibtex [--quiet|--verbose] [--authors-fix-file=NAME|--no-authors-fix-file] document [document ...]
DESCRIPTION
ietf2bibtex creates a
BibTeX entry for an IETF document (i.e. RFC or Internet
Draft). The necessary information is automatically obtained
from online XML references and the actual document. Note,
that author names are sometimes wrong, misspelled,
incomplete or inconsistent. Therefore, ietf2bibtex may read
a file denoted as authors fix file. It contains name
translations in the form of "Old Name" "New
Name", for example:
"A. Bundy" "Al Bundy"
"J. Muller" "Joe Müller"
"J. Moller" "Jarle Møller"
Known limitations of ietf2bibtex:
IETF metadata and documents only contain ASCII characters.
To obtain the correct non-ASCII author names (e.g. German,
Norwegian, French, etc.), it is necessary to use
authors-fix.list.
IETF metadata has often wrong or limited author information
for a document. ietf2bibtex tries to obtain the author
information from the document. Unusual formatting sometimes
prevents this.
IETF metadata often has the wrong date for a document.
ietf2bibtex tries to obtain the date from the document.
Unusual formatting sometimes prevents this.
OPTIONS
The following arguments may be provided:
document
The name of the IETF document, e.g. like RFC5351 or draft-dreibholz-mptcp-nornet-experience.
--quiet
Print less progress information.
--verbose
Print progress information (default).
--authors-fix-file=NAME
Use the given file as authors fix file. If not provided, the default is used: try authors-fix.list in the current directory first, then /usr/share/doc/bibtexconv/examples/authors-fix.list.
--no-authors-fix-file
Use no authors fix file.
EXAMPLES
ietf2bibtex RFC5351
ietf2bibtex RFC5351 RFC5352 RFC5353 RFC5354 RFC5355 RFC5356 RFC5525 >RSerPool.bib
ietf2bibtex --quiet draft-dreibholz-mptcp-nornet-experience
ietf2bibtex --verbose --authors-fix-file=/usr/share/doc/bibtexconv/examples/authors-fix.list draft-dreibholz-mptcp-nornet-experience ietf2bibtex April 13, 2021 ietf2bibtex(1)