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)