bibliographic records.  If there are limitations on the dissemination
   of the publication, it should be protected by some means such as
   passwords.  This RFC does not address this protection.

   The use of this format is encouraged.  There are no limitations on
   its use.








 
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The Information Fields

   The various fields should follow the format described below.

    means Mandatory; a record without it is invalid.
    means Optional.

   The tags (aka Field-IDs) are shown in upper case.

             BIB-VERSION of this bibliographic records format
             ID
             ENTRY date
             ORGANIZATION
             TITLE
             TYPE
             REVISION
             WITHDRAW
             AUTHOR
             CORP-AUTHOR
             CONTACT for the author(s)
             DATE of publication
             PAGES count
             COPYRIGHT, permissions and disclaimers
             HANDLE
             OTHER_ACCESS
             RETRIEVAL
             KEYWORD
             CR-CATEGORY
             PERIOD
             SERIES
             MONITORING organization(s)
             FUNDING organization(s)
             CONTRACT number(s)
             GRANT number(s)
             LANGUAGE name
             NOTES
             ABSTRACT
             END














 
RFC 1807           A Format for Bibliographic Records          June 1995


Meta Format

    * Keep It Simple.

    * One bibliographic record for each publication, where a
      "publication" is whatever the publishing institution
      defines as such.

   * A record contains several fields.

   * Each field starts with its tag (aka the field-ID) which is a
     reserved identifier (containing no separators) at the
     beginning of a new line with or without spaces before it),
     followed by two colons ("::"), followed by the field data.

   * Continuation lines:  Lines are limited to 79 characters.
     When needed, fields may continue over several lines, with an
     implied space in between.  In order to simplify the use no
     special marking is used to indicate continuation line.
     Hence, fields are terminated by a line that starts (apart
     from white space) with a word followed by two colons.  Except
     for the "END::" that is terminated by the end of line.)  For
     improved human readability it is suggested to start
     continuation lines with some spaces.

   * Several fields are mandatory and must appear in the record.