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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	Mller"
       "J. Moller" "Jarle Mller"
       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 docu-
       ment.  ietf2bibtex tries	to obtain the author information from the doc-
       ument.  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 some-
       times 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)

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