Roland Bless, has a rather useful resource of a set of BibTex information for all RFC documents for those working with RFC’s and needing to cite them using BibTex. Available for download is an automatically generated .bib database of all the current RFCs.
The 1.8 meg .bib file is probably a little large for general use but once can easily trim and copy entries required manually or using JabRef. Citations look like the following:
@MISC{rfc1466,
author = {E. Gerich},
title = {{Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space}},
howpublished = {RFC 1466 (Informational)},
month = may,
year = {1993},
note = {Obsoleted by RFC 2050},
number = {1466},
organisation = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
publisher = {IETF},
series = {Request for Comments},
timestamp = {2008.05.18},
url = {http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1466.txt}
}
A resource certain to save typing or multiple c & p operations. The one possible change one may want to make is to include the RFC number in the document tile such as:
title = {{RFC 1466: Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space}}
Related to this the W3C have a web page which allows for automated generation of bibTeX citation information for their publications.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Another RFC to BibTeX script | Static in the Ether // Jun 9, 2008 at 07:43
[...] form my earlier post regarding a pre-compiled bibTeX database of all Internet RFCs, I discovered while browsing the CTAN archives that Richard Mortier wrote a awk script back in 2000 [...]
2 Websites tagged "bibtex" on Postsaver // Dec 3, 2008 at 20:09
[...] saved by ybadn2008-11-14 – Notes from TUG2008 in Cork: Day 4 saved by tehchoyce2008-11-13 – RFC BibTeX resource saved by Kloudjonas2008-11-11 – FLoC ‘02 – BibTeX download page saved by waysolid2008-11-07 – [...]
3 Tim Porter // May 29, 2009 at 15:04
Excellent, I was wondering the best way to cite RFCs.
Helped alot, cheers!
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