ended format. The revised bibliographic record should
contain a complete record for the publication, not just a
list of changes to the old record. If revision is
omitted, the record is assumed to be a new record and not
a revision. If the revision date is specified as 0, this
is assumed to be January 1, 1900 (the previous RFC, used
revision data of 0, 1, 2, 3, etc. this specification is for
programs that might process records from RFC1357).
The text before the semicolon in this field is a date of
the form month day, year. Any record with a more recent
revision date replaces completely any record with an
earlier revision date (supplied either explicitly or by
default). Use the text to describe the revision.
Reasons to send out a revised record include an error in
the original, or change in the access information.
Format: REVISION:: January 1, 1995;
Example: REVISION:: January 1, 1995; FTP information
added
WITHDRAW (O) Withdraw means the document is no longer
available. Some Institutions choose to delete the record
others remove some of the fields. It is up to each
institution to decide how to process withdraw records.
A withdraw record has all of the mandatory fields plus the
withdraw field and a mandatory revision field.
The Withdraw field should indicate the reason for the
withdraw in free text.
Example for withdrawing a bibliographic record::
BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.1
ID:: OUKS//CS-TR-91-123
ENTRY:: January 21, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Oceanview University, Kansas, Computer
Science
TITLE:: The Computerization of Oceanview with
High Speed Fiber Optics Communication
REVISION:: January 21, 1995
WITHDRAW:: Withdrawn, found to be irrelevant
END:: OUKS//CS-TR-91-123
RFC 1807 A Format for Bibliographic Records June 1995
AUTHOR (O) -- Personal names only. Normal last name first
inversion. Editors should be listed here as well,
identified with the usual "(ed.)" as shown below in the last
example.
If the report was not authored by a person (e.g., it was
authored by a committee or a panel) use CORP-AUTHOR (see
below) instead of AUTHOR.
Multiple authors are entered by using multiple lines, each
in the form of "AUTHOR:: ".
The system preserves the order of the authors.
Format: AUTHOR::
Example: AUTHOR:: Finnegan, James A.
AUTHOR:: Pooh, Winnie The
AUTHOR:: Lastname, Firstname (ed.)
CORP-AUTHOR (O) -- The corporate author (e.g., a committee or a
panel) that authored the report, which may be different
from the ORGANIZATION issuing the report.
In entering the corporate name please omit initial "the"
or "a". If it is really part of the name, please invert it.
Format: CORP-AUTHOR::
Example: CORP-AUTHOR:: Committee on long-range computing
CONTACT (O) -- The contact for the author(s).
Open-ended, most likely E-mail and postal addresses.
A CONTACT field for each author should be provided,
separately, or for all the AUTHOR fields.
E-mail addresses should always be in "pointy brackets"
(as in the example below).
Format: CONTACT::
Example: CONTACT:: Prof. J. A. Finnegan, CS Dept,
Oceanview Univ., Oceanview, Kansas, 54321
Tel: 913-456-7890 <Finnegan@cs.ouks.edu>
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