Academic type question

[chickenfeet]

Suppose one wishes to know whether books or articles written by person x are cited in the bibliography of work y. Suppose further that, in the discipline in question, most works are of group authorship. Is there a way of doing this short of ploughing through the bibliography line by line?

Just to make matters more fun, as far as I can see, authors of a given paper tend to be listed alphabetically and the person I'm interested in has a surname starting with 'Z'.

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I'm working with a particularly primitive piece of technology called, I believe, a 'book'.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Heh!