From this research it transpires that the argument about the
brevity of the author number is not valid if the author tables are
applied outside the language environment for which they were
originally designed. Any such system should be tested not only on
authors surnames but also in large classes that may contain
anonymous works in which the first word of the title occurs
frequently, e.g. ‘anthology’, ‘collection’, ‘report’, ‘proceedings’,
‘standard’ etc.