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-rserpool-delay

ietf2bibtex                                      April 29, 2025                                   ietf2bibtex(1)