ietf2bibtex(1) General Commands Manual ietf2bibtex(1) NAME ietf2bibtex -- Create BibTeX entry for IETF document SYNOPSIS ietf2bibtex [--authors-fix-file=NAME] [--no-authors-fix-file] [--quiet] [--verbose] document [document ...] DESCRIPTION ietf2bibtex creates a BibTeX entry for an IETF document (i.e. RFC or Inter- net Draft). The necessary information is automatically obtained from online XML references and the actual document. Note, that author names are some- times 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 MA1/4ller" "J. Moller" "Jarle MA,ller" 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. Un- usual 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 pre- vents this. OPTIONS The following arguments may be provided: document [...] The name of the IETF document, e.g. like RFC5351 or draft-dreib- holz-ipv4-flowlabel. Multiple names may be provided. --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 de- fault 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. EXIT STATUS The ietf2bibtex tool exits with 0 on success, and >0 in case of an error. EXAMPLES ietf2bibtex RFC5351 ietf2bibtex RFC5351 RFC5352 RFC5353 RFC5354 RFC5355 RFC5356 RFC5525 >RSerPool.bib ietf2bibtex --quiet draft-dreibholz-ipv4-flowlabel ietf2bibtex --verbose --authors-fix-file=/usr/share/doc/bibtexconv/- examples/authors-fix.list draft-dreibholz-rserpool-delay NOTES This program is part of BibTeXConv. The latest version of BibTeXConv can be found on the BibTeXConv Homepage at BibTeXConv Homepage. AUTHORS Thomas Dreibholz, Homepage ietf2bibtex May 26, 2026 ietf2bibtex(1)
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