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