Mehmet, The tool is not INTENDED to change the author order. A somewhat incomplete database can indeed lead to unexpected results, use with caution. Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj Skype: organdemo On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Ersue, Mehmet (NSN - DE/Munich) wrote: > Nice tool. > > However, I am wondering why the tool changes the order of the names. > There is actually a reason why documents list names in a specific order. > > Some of the citations appear to be incomplete, see RFC3410. > > Cheers, > Mehmet > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of ext Ole > > Jacobsen > > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:17 AM > > To: The IETF > > Cc: RSOC; Heather Flanagan; rsag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RFC and I-D Citation Tool > > > > > > In The Internet Protocol Journal I have been using the following > > citation format, best illustrated by an example: > > > > Julien Meuric, Diego Caviglia, Don Fedyk, Attila Takacs, and Lou > > Berger, "GMPLS Asymmetric Bandwidth Bidirectional Label Switched > > Paths (LSPs)," RFC 6387, September 2011. > > > > So, that's full author names "and" before the last author name, title, > > document number and date, using the American "quotation outside > > punctuation rule." > > > > I got tired of doing this "by hand" so I asked Henrik if he could > > write me a tool. He did (THANKS!), and the result is here: > > > > http://tools.ietf.org/tools/citation/ > > > > This will take either the draft name or the RFC number as input and > > produce a citation similar to the one above. You can of course play > > with the elements and generate a format that suits your own taste, for > > example, for I-Ds, in print it might be good to have the FILE NAME as > > the last entry: > > > > Adam Langley, "Serializing DNS Records with DNSSEC Authentication," > > Internet Draft, work in progress, July 2011, > > draft-agl-dane-serializechain-01 > > > > ...since I like having filenames or URLs on one line (not wrapping) > > as much as possible. > > > > Many thanks again to Henrik, and I hope you will find it useful too! > > > > Ole > > > > > > > > Ole J. Jacobsen > > Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal > > Cisco Systems > > Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 > > E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj > > Skype: organdemo > >