All fields (unless specifically not permitted to) may be in
     any order and may be repeated as needed (e.g., the AUTHOR
     field).  The order of the repeated fields is always
     preserved.

   * Only printable ASCII characters are to be used.  The permissible
     characters are ASCII codes 040 (Space) through 176(~)
     and line breaks which are \012 (LF) or \012\015 (CRLF).
     Empty lines indicate paragraph break.  \009 (tab) must be
     replaced by spaces.  This specifically forbids tabs, null
     characters, DEL, backspaces, etc.  (i.e., if used, the record is
     invalid.)

     However full 8 bit ASCII may be used.  WARNING: some
     electronic mailers cannot handle 8 bit ASCII and these
     records may need to be transported via other mechanisms.

     Throughout this document the word "publisher" means the
     publishing organization of a report (e.g., a university or a
     department thereof), not necessarily an organization authorized
     to issue ISBN numbers.





 
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                                EXAMPLE
-------------------------------------------------------------
 BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
          ID:: OUKS//CS-TR-91-123
       ENTRY:: January 15, 1992
ORGANIZATION:: Oceanview University, Kansas, Computer Science
        TYPE:: Technical Report
    REVISION:: January 5, 1995; FTP access information added
       TITLE:: Scientific Communication must be timely
      AUTHOR:: Finnegan, James A.
     CONTACT:: Prof. J. A. Finnegan, CS Dept, Oceanview Univ,
               Oceanview, KS 54321  Tel: 913-456-7890
               <Finnegan@cs.ouks.edu>
      AUTHOR:: Pooh, Winnie The
     CONTACT:: 100 Aker Wood
        DATE:: December 1991
       PAGES:: 48
   COPYRIGHT:: Copyright for the report (c) 1991, by J. A.
               Finnegan.  All rights reserved.  Permission is granted
               for any academic use of the report.
      HANDLE:: hdl:oceanview.electr/CS-TR-91-123
OTHER_ACCESS:: url:http://electr.oceanview.edu/CS-TR-91-123
OTHER_ACCESS:: url:ftp://electr.oceanview.edu/CS-TR-91-123
   RETRIEVAL:: send email to Finnegan@cs.ouks.edu with fax number
     KEYWORD:: Scientific Communication
 CR-CATEGORY:: D.0
 CR-CATEGORY:: C.2.2 Computer Sys Org, Communication nets, Net
               Protocols
      SERIES:: Communication
     FUNDING:: FAS
    CONTRACT:: FAS-91-C-1234
  MONITORING:: FNBO
    LANGUAGE:: English
       NOTES:: This report is the full version of the paper with
               the same title in IEEE Trans ASSP Dec 1976
ABSTRACT::

Many alchemists in the country work on important fusion problems.
All of them cooperate and interact with each other through the
scientific literature.  This scientific communication methodology
has many advantages.  Timeliness is not one of them.

END:: OUKS//CS-TR-91-123
---------------------------- End of Example -------------------

   For reference, the above example has about 1,689 characters (184
   words) including about 249 characters (36 words) in the abstract.





 
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The Actual Format

   The term "Open Ended Format" in the following means arbitrary text.

   In the following double-quotes indicate complete strings.  They are
   included only for grouping and are not expected to be used in the
   actual records.

   The BIB-VERSION, ID, ENTRY, and END field must appear as the first,
   second, third, and last fields, and may not be repeated in the
   record.  All other fields may be repeated as needed.


BIB-VERSION (M) -- This is the first field of any record.  It is a