diff --git a/src/app/db/loaders.ts b/src/app/db/loaders.ts
index 7f5ecea..563e4ea 100644
--- a/src/app/db/loaders.ts
+++ b/src/app/db/loaders.ts
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ export const loadAllAuthors = (): Promise<{ [key: string]: Author }> => {
   })
 }
 
-export const loadAuthor = (id: string): Promise<Author> => {
+export const loadAuthors = (authorIds: string[]): Promise<Author> => {
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     if (typeof Worker !== 'undefined') {
       const worker = new Worker(
diff --git a/src/app/db/workers/authorLoader.worker.ts b/src/app/db/workers/authorLoader.worker.ts
index 4ec63fe..99fd243 100644
--- a/src/app/db/workers/authorLoader.worker.ts
+++ b/src/app/db/workers/authorLoader.worker.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,18 @@
-import { authors } from '../data'
+import { authors, Author } from '../data'
+
+const checkIsStringArray = (data: unknown): data is string[] => {
+  if (Array.isArray(data)) {
+    return data.every((d) => typeof d === 'string')
+  }
+  return false
+}
 
 onmessage = (e) => {
-  if (e.data === 'LOAD') {
-    self.postMessage(authors)
-  }
+  let authorIds: string[] = []
+  let authors = []
+  checkIsStringArray(e.data) && (authorIds = e.data as string[])
+
+  authorIds.forEach(id => {
+    
+  })
 }
diff --git a/src/app/document/view/[slug]/VersionChooser.tsx b/src/app/document/view/[slug]/VersionChooser.tsx
index e9c7757..70f532e 100644
--- a/src/app/document/view/[slug]/VersionChooser.tsx
+++ b/src/app/document/view/[slug]/VersionChooser.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 'use client'
-import { useState } from 'react'
+import { useState, useEffect } from 'react'
 import { Document } from '@/app/db/data'
 import Link from 'next/link'
 import { loadAllAuthors } from '@/app/db/loaders'
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@ const VersionChooser = ({
     },
   })
   if (error) throw error
-
-  let authorList = data
+  
+  useEffect(() => {
+    console.log(data)
+  }, [data])
 
   const { file } = doc
   const { authors, latest } = doc.manifest
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ const VersionChooser = ({
           const bibtex = `@article{
   author={${authors
     .map((a: string, i) => {
-      const author = authorList[a].name.first + ' ' + authorList[a].name.last
+      const author = data[a].name.first + ' ' + data[a].name.last
       if (i === 0) return author
       else if (i === authors.length - 1) return ` and ${author}`
       else return `, ${author}`