CITED REFERENCE SEARCH, Step 1 – Cited reference searching is a two-step process: you first perform a lookup against the reference index, and then search for the articles that contain those references. On the lookup page, enter an author name, cited work, or cited year. Use wildcards (* to represent none to many characters, ? for one character) to find words with various endings for maximum retrieval. Click "Lookup" to get a list of the cited papers from the index that match the criteria you specified. Optionally, click "Save Query" to save the search query to your hard drive, which allows you to simply open and run the same query at a later date.