Bibliography of encyclopedias: biology

This is a list of encyclopedias as well as encyclopedic and biographical dictionaries published on the subject of biology in any language.


 * Entries are in the English language unless specifically stated as otherwise.

General biology

 * Becher, Anne, Joseph Richey. American environmental leaders: From colonial times to the present. Grey House, 2008. ISBN 9781592371198.
 * Butcher, Russell D., Stephen E. Adair, Lynn A. Greenwalt. America's national wildlife refuges: A complete guide. Roberts Rinehart Publishers in cooperation with Ducks Unlimited, 2003. ISBN 1570983798.
 * Ecological Internet, Inc. EcoEarth.info: Environment portal and search engine. Ecological Internet, Inc..
 * Friday, Adrian & Davis S. Ingram. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Cambridge, 1985.
 * Gaither, Carl C., Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Andrew Slocombe. Naturally speaking: A dictionary of quotations on biology, botany, nature and zoology. Institute of Physics, 2001. ISBN 0750306815.
 * Gibson, Daniel, National Audubon Society. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. Southwest: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. ISBN 0312207778.
 * Goudie, Andrew, David J. Cuff. Encyclopedia of global change: Environmental change and human society. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0195108256.
 * Gove, Doris. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. Southeast : Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, U.S. Virgin Islands. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. ISBN 0312241283.
 * Grassy, John. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges: Northern Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin. St. Martin's Griffin, c2000. ISBN 0312243154.
 * Grassy, John. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges: Rocky Mountains: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. ISBN 0312245742.
 * Gray, Peter. Encyclopedia of the Biological Sciences. Krieger, 1981.
 * Grinstein, Louise S., Carol A. Biermann, Rose K. Rose. Women in the biological sciences: A biobibliographic sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1997. ISBN 0313291802.
 * Hancock, John M., Marketa J. Zvelebil. Dictionary of bioinformatics and computational biology. Wiley-Liss, 2004. ISBN 0471436224.
 * Hosansky, David. The environment A to Z. CQ Press, 2001. ISBN 1568025831.
 * Laubach, René. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. New England : Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. ISBN 0312204507.
 * Mac Arthur, Loren, Debbie S. Miller. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. Alaska and the Northwest: Alaska, Oregon, Washington. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. ISBN 0312253729.
 * Mac Arthur, Loren. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. California & Hawaii : California, Hawaii. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. ISBN 0312206895.
 * Marinelli, Janet, Stephen K.-M. Tim, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden gardener's desk reference. Henry Holt, 1998. ISBN 0805050957.
 * McAinish, T. F. Physics in Medicine & Biology Encyclopedia. Pergamon Press, 1986.
 * Munn, R. E. Encyclopedia of global environmental change. Wiley, 2002. ISBN 0471977969.
 * National Academy of Sciences. Biographical memoirs of the national academy of sciences. National Academy of Sciences..
 * Nature Publishing Group. Encyclopedia of life sciences. Nature Publishing Group, 2002. ISBN 1561592749.
 * Niergenberg, William Aaron, Edward O. Wilson, Peter H. Raven. Encyclopedia of environmental biology. Academic Press, 1995. ISBN 0122267303.
 * Nybakken, James Willard, William W. Broenkow, T. L. Vallier. Interdisciplinary encyclopedia of marine sciences. Grolier Academic Reference, 2003. ISBN 0717259463.
 * O'Daly, Anne. Encyclopedia of life sciences. Marshall Cavendish, 2004. ISBN 0761474420.
 * Palmer, William, National Audubon Society. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. South Central: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. ISBN 0312244878.
 * Pilch, Richard F., Raymond A. Zilinskas. Encyclopedia of bioterrorism defense. Wiley-LISS, 2005. ISBN 0471467170.
 * Polunin, Nicholas, Lynn M. Curme. World who is who and does what in environment and conservation. St. Martin's Press; Foundation for Environmental Conservation, 1997. ISBN 0312174489.
 * Porter, Roy, Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. The biographical dictionary of scientists. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0195216636.
 * Ricciuti, Edward R. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. Mid-Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. ISBN 0312204817.
 * Royal Society (Great Britain). Biographical memoirs of fellows of the royal society. Royal Society, 1955–..
 * Shearer, Benjamin F., Barbara Smith Shearer. Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1996. ISBN 0313293023.
 * Sterling, Keir B. Biographical dictionary of American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists. Greenwood Press, 1997. ISBN 0313230471.
 * U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Science.gov. U. S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, 2002-..
 * Wexler, Philip, Bruce D. Anderson, Ann de Peyster. Encyclopedia of toxicology. Elsevier Academic, 2005. ISBN 0127453512.
 * Royal Society (Great Britain). Biographical memoirs of fellows of the royal society. Royal Society, 1955–..
 * Shearer, Benjamin F., Barbara Smith Shearer. Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1996. ISBN 0313293023.
 * Sterling, Keir B. Biographical dictionary of American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists. Greenwood Press, 1997. ISBN 0313230471.
 * U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Science.gov. U. S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, 2002-..
 * Wexler, Philip, Bruce D. Anderson, Ann de Peyster. Encyclopedia of toxicology. Elsevier Academic, 2005. ISBN 0127453512.

Lifeforms

 * Association for Biodiversity Information. NatureServe explorer: An online encyclopedia of life. NatureServe..
 * Beacham, Walton, Frank V. Castronova, Suzanne Sessine. Beacham's guide to the endangered species of North America. Gale Group, 2001. ISBN 0787650285.
 * Center for Applied Biodiversity Science. Biodiversity hotspots. Conservation International..
 * Field Museum of Natural History. The encyclopedia of life: EOL. Encyclopedia of Life, 2007-..
 * Henry, Helen L., Anthony W. Norman. Encyclopedia of hormones. Academic Press, 2003. ISBN 0123411033.
 * IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group. Global invasive species database. IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group. 2000-..
 * Levin, Simon A. Encyclopedia of biodiversity. Academic Press, 2001. ISBN 0122268652.
 * Pagel, Mark D. Encyclopedia of evolution. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0195122003..
 * Polistes Foundation. Discover life. Polistes Corporation, 1999-..
 * Tree of Life Web Project. Tree of life. University of Arizona..
 * World Wildlife Fund. World wildlife fund. World Wildlife Fund..

Animals

 * Audubon Society Encyclopedia of Animal Life. Clarkson N. Potter, 1982.
 * Bekoff, Marc, Jane Goodall. Encyclopedia of animal behavior. Greenwood Press, 2004. ISBN 0313327459.
 * Bruce, Jenni. The encyclopedia of animals: A complete visual guide. University of California Press, 2004. ISBN 0520244060.
 * Burton, Maurice, Robert Burton. International wildlife encyclopedia. Marshall Cavendish, 2002. ISBN 0761472665.
 * Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Facts on File, 1987.
 * Encyclopedia of Animal Biology. Facts on File, 1987.
 * Encyclopedia of Animal Ecology. Facts on File, 1987.
 * Encyclopedia of Animal Evolution. Facts on File, 1987.
 * Grzimek, Bernhard. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Van Nostrand, 1972–1975.
 * Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Ethology. Van Nostrand, 1972–1977.
 * The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Wildlife. Grey Castle Press, 1991.
 * Knobil, Ernst and Jimmy D. Neill. Encyclopedia of reproduction. Academic Press, 1998. ISBN 0122270207.
 * Macmillan Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia. Macmillan, 1984.
 * Marshall Cavendish International Wildlife Encyclopedia. Marshall Cavendish, 1990.
 * Nowak, Ronald M., David W. Macdonald, Roland W. Kays. Walker's carnivores of the world. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN 0801880335.
 * The Oxford Companion to Animal Behaviour. Oxford, 1987.
 * World Nature Encyclopedia. Raintree/Steck-Vaughn, 1989.

Aquatic

 * Banister, Keith & Andrew Campbell. The Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life. Facts on File, 1985.
 * Dakin, Nick. Macmillan Book of the Marine Aquarium. Macmillan, 1993.
 * The Encyclopedia of Marine Invertebrates. T. F. H. Publications, 1983.
 * Folkens, Pieter A., Randall R. Reeves, National Audubon Society. Guide to marine mammals of the world. A. A. Knopf, 2002. ISBN 0375411410.
 * George, David and Jennifer. Marine Life: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Invertebrates in the Sea. Wiley, 1979.
 * Halstead, Bruce. Dangerous Aquatic Animals of the World: A Color Atlas. Darwin Press, 1992.
 * Sterba, Gunther. The Aquarium Encyclopedia. MIT Press, 1983.
 * Stickney, Robert R. Encyclopedia of aquaculture. Wiley, 2000. ISBN 0471291013.

Fishes

 * Dr. Axelrod's Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes. T. F. H. Publications, 6th ed., 1991.
 * Dr. Burgess's Mini-Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes. T. F. H. Publications, 1991.
 * Eschmeyer, William N., Earl Stanndard Herald, Howard Hammann. A field guide to Pacific Coast fishes of North America: From the Gulf of Alaska to Baja, California. Houghton Mifflin, 1983. ISBN 0395331889.
 * Froese, R., D. Pauly International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management. FishBase: A global information system on fishes. FishBase, [2000?]-..
 * Gilbert, Carter Rowell, James D. Williams, National Audubon Society. National Audubon Society field guide to fishes. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. ISBN 0375412247.
 * Goldstein, Robert J., Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards. American aquarium fishes. Texas A&M University Press, 2000. ISBN 0890968802.
 * Page, Lawrence M., Brooks M. Burr, Eugene C. Beckham III, National Audubon Society. A field guide to freshwater fishes: North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. ISBN 0395910919.
 * Paxton, John R., William N. Eschmeyer, David Kirshner. Encyclopedia of fishes. Academic Press, 1998. ISBN 0125476655.

Insects

 * Audubon Society Book of Insects. Abrams, 1983.
 * Capinera, John L. Encyclopedia of entomology. Kluwer Academic, 2004. ISBN 0792386701.
 * Johnson, Warren T., Howard H. Lyon, C. S. Koehler. Insects that feed on trees and shrubs. Comstock Publishing Associates, 1991. ISBN 0801426022.
 * Marshall, S. A. Insects: Their natural history and diversity; With a photographic guide to insects of eastern North America. Firefly Books, 2006. ISBN 1552979008.
 * Milne, Lorus Johnson, Margery Joan Greene Milne, Susan Rayfield. The Audubon Society field guide to North American insects and spiders. Knopf, 1980. ISBN 0394507630.
 * O'Toole, Christopher. The Encyclopedia of Insects. Facts on File, 1986.
 * Pyle, Robert Michael, Carol Nehring, Jane Opper, National Audubon Society. The Audubon Society field guide to North American butterflies. Knopf, 1981. ISBN 0394519140.
 * Resh, Vincent H., Ring T. Cardé. Encyclopedia of insects. Academic Press, 2003. ISBN 0125869908.
 * Solomon, J. D., U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service. Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1995.

Birds

 * Alderfer, Jonathan K., National Geographic Society (U. S.). National Geographic complete birds of North America. National Geographic, 2006. ISBN 0792241754.
 * American Ornithologists' Union, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Cornell University. The birds of North America. American Ornithologists' Union, 1992–2002..
 * Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ornithology. Cambridge, 1991.
 * Campbell, Bruce and Elizabeth Lack. Dictionary of Birds. Buteo, rev. ed., 1985.
 * Clark, William S., Brian K. Wheeler. A field guide to hawks of North America. Houghton Mifflin, 2001. ISBN 0395670675.
 * Cornell University. All about birds. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology..
 * del Hoyo, Josep, Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal. Handbook of the birds of the world. Lynx Edicions, 1992–2006. ISBN 8487334105.
 * Dunn, Jon, Jonathan K. Alderfer, National Geographic Society (U.S.). National Geographic field guide to the birds of North America. National Geographic, 2006. ISBN 0792253140.
 * Ferguson-Lees, David A. Christie, Kim Franklin. Raptors of the world. Houghton Mifflin, 2001. ISBN 0618127623.
 * Fuller, Errol. Extinct birds. Comstock, 2001. ISBN 080143954X.
 * Montagu, George (1802). Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds, London: J. White.
 * Perrins, Christopher. Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds. Prentice Hall, 1991.
 * Perrins, Christopher and Alex Middleton. Encyclopedia of Birds. Facts on File, 1985.
 * Robbins, Chandler S., Bertel Bruun, Herbert Spencer Zim. Birds of North America: A guide to field identification. St. Martin's Press, 2001. ISBN 1582380910.
 * Sibley, David. The Sibley field guide to birds of eastern North America. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. ISBN 067945120X.
 * Sibley, David. The Sibley field guide to birds of western North America. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. ISBN 0679451218.
 * Sibley, David, Chris Elphick, John B. Dunning, National Audubon Society. The Sibley guide to bird life and behavior. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. ISBN 0679451234.
 * Sibley, David. The Sibley guide to birds. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. ISBN 0679451226.
 * Terres, John K. Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds. Knopf, 1991.
 * Terres, John K. Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds. Knopf, 1991.

Endangered species

 * Endangered Wildlife of the World. Marshall Cavendish, 1993.
 * The Grolier World Encyclopedia of Endangered Species. Grolier, 1992.
 * Lowe, David W., John R. Matthews, Charles J. Moseley, World Wildlife Fund. The official World Wildlife Fund guide to endangered species of North America. Beacham, 1990–1994. ISBN 0933833172.
 * Official World Wildlife Fund Guide to Endangered Species. Beacham, 1990–1992.

Mammals

 * Beacham, Walton, Kirk H. Beetz. Beacham's guide to international endangered species. Beacham, 1998–2001. ISBN 0933833342.
 * Elbroch, Mark. Mammal tracks and sign: A guide to North American species. Stackpole Books, 2003. ISBN 0811726266.
 * Folkens, Pieter A., Randall R. Reeves, National Audubon Society. Guide to marine mammals of the world. A. A. Knopf, 2002. ISBN 0375411410.
 * Grzimek, Bernhard. Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals. McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed., 1990. ISBN 0079095089.
 * Macdonald, David. Encyclopedia of Mammals. Facts on File, 2006. ISBN 0816064946.
 * Mammals: A Multimedia Encyclopedia. National Geographic Society/IBM, 1990.
 * Nowak, Ronald. Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. ISBN 0801857899.
 * Reid, Fiona, National Audubon Society. A field guide to mammals of North America, north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin, 2006. ISBN 0395935962.
 * Whitaker, John O., National Audubon Society. National Audubon Society field guide to North American mammals. Knopf, 1996. ISBN 0679446311.
 * Wilson, Don E., Sue Ruff, American Society of Mammalogists. The Smithsonian book of North American mammals. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. ISBN 1560988452.

Canines

 * American Kennel Club. The complete dog book: Official publication of the American Kennel Club. Ballantine Books, 2006. ISBN 0345476263.
 * De Prisco, Andrew and James B. Johnson. Canine Lexicon. T. F. H. Publications, 1993.
 * Morris, Desmond. Dogs: The ultimate dictionary of over 1,000 dog breeds. Trafalgar Square, 2002. ISBN 1570762198.
 * De Prisco, Andrew and James B. Johnson. Canine Lexicon. T. F. H. Publications, 1993.
 * Morris, Desmond. Dogs: The ultimate dictionary of over 1,000 dog breeds. Trafalgar Square, 2002. ISBN 1570762198.
 * Morris, Desmond. Dogs: The ultimate dictionary of over 1,000 dog breeds. Trafalgar Square, 2002. ISBN 1570762198.
 * Morris, Desmond. Dogs: The ultimate dictionary of over 1,000 dog breeds. Trafalgar Square, 2002. ISBN 1570762198.

Cats

 * Kelsey-Wood, Dennis. The Atlas of Cats of the World: Domesticated and Wild. T. F. H. Publications, 1989.

Cattle

 * Felius, Marleen. Cattle breeds: An encyclopedia. Misset, 1995. ISBN 9054390174.

Horses

 * Ensminger, M. F. The Complete Encyclopedia of Horses. A. S. Barnes, 1977.
 * Griffin, James and Tom Gore. Horse Owner's Veterinary Handbook. Howell Book House, 1989.
 * Kidd, Jane. International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds. H. P. Books, 1986.
 * Kidd, Jane. International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds & Breeding. Crescent Books, 1989.
 * Kidd, Jane. International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds & Breeding. Crescent Books, 1989.

Primates

 * Jacobsen, Lawrence, Raymond Hamel, Cynthia Robinson, Wisconsin Primate Research Center. Primate info net. Wisconsin Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin..

Human

 * Blakemore, Colin, Sheila Jennett, Alan Cuthbert. The Oxford companion to the body. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 019852403X.
 * Cooper, David N., Nature Publishing Group. Nature encyclopedia of the human genome. Nature Publishing Group, 2003. ISBN 0333803868.
 * Dulbecco, Renato. Encyclopedia of Human Biology. Academic Press, 1991.
 * Kristic, Radivoj V. Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Histology. Springer-Verlag, 1984.
 * Ramachandran, V. S. Encyclopedia of the human brain. Academic Press, 2002. ISBN 0122272102.
 * Ulijaszek, Stanley J., Francis E. Johnston, M. A. Preece. The Cambridge encyclopedia of human growth and development. Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0521560462.

Human evolution

 * Jones, Stephen. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge, 1993.
 * Milner, Richard. Encyclopedia of Evolution: Humanity's Search for Its Origins. Facts on File, 1990.
 * Tattersall, Ian. The Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory. Garland. ISBN 0815316968.

Reptiles and Amphibians

 * Behler, John L., F. Wayne King, National Audubon Society. The Audubon Society field guide to North American reptiles and amphibians. Knopf, 1979. ISBN 0394508246.
 * Bonin, Franck, Bernard Devaux, Alain Dupré. Turtles of the world. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ISBN 0801884969.
 * Campbell, Jonathan A., William W. Lamar, Edmund D. Brodie III. The venomous reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. Comstock, 2004. ISBN 0801441412.
 * Center for North American Herpetology. Center for North American herpetology: Promoting the preservation and conservation of North American amphibians, crocodilians, reptiles, and turtles through scholarship and information. Center for North American Herpetology..
 * Conant, Roger, Joseph T. Collins, Isabelle Hunt Conant. A field guide to reptiles and amphibians: Eastern and central North America. Houghton Mifflin, 1998. ISBN 0395904528.
 * Ernst, Carl H. Evelyn M. Ernst. Snakes of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian Books, 2003. ISBN 1588340198.
 * Halliday, Tim and Kraig Alder. The Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians. Facts on File, 1986.
 * Rossi, John, Roxanne Rossi. Snakes of the United States and Canada: Natural history and care in captivity. Krieger, 2003. ISBN 1575240319.
 * Smith, Hobart Muir. Handbook of lizards: Lizards of the United States and of Canada. Comstock, 1995. ISBN 0801482364.
 * Stebbins, Robert C. A field guide to western reptiles and amphibians. Houghton Mifflin, 2003. ISBN 0395982723.

Fungi

 * Hall, Ian R. Edible and poisonous mushrooms of the world. Timber Press, 2003. ISBN 0881925861.
 * Kuo, Michael, John David Moore, Darvin DeShazer. 100 edible mushrooms. University of Michigan Press, 2007. ISBN 9780472031269.
 * Kuo, Michael. MushroomExpert.com. Michael Kuo, 2000-. . 2000–.
 * Lincoff, Gary, Carol Nehring, National Audubon Society. The Audubon Society field guide to North American mushrooms. Knopf, 1981. ISBN 0394519922.
 * McKnight, Kent H., Vera B. McKnight, National Audubon Society. A field guide to mushrooms, North America. Houghton Mifflin, 1998. ISBN 0395421012.
 * Phillips, Roger, Geoffrey Kibby, Nicky Foy. Mushrooms and other fungi of North America. Firefly Books, 2005. ISBN 1554071151.
 * Turner, Nancy J., Adam F. Szczawinski. Common poisonous plants and mushrooms of North America. Timber Press, 1991. ISBN 0881921793.

Plants

 * Bailey, Liberty Hyde & Ethel Zoe Bailey. Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada. Macmillan, 3rd ed., 1976.
 * Barker, Joan. The encyclopedia of North American wild flowers. Parragon, 2004. ISBN 1405430354.
 * Beckett, Kenneth A. The RHS Encyclopedia of House Plants Including Greenhouse Plants. Salem House, 1987.
 * Brickell, Christopher. The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Garden Plants. Macmillan, 1989.
 * Brickell, Christopher, Trevor J. Cole, American Horticultural Society. American Horticultural Society encyclopedia of plants and flowers. DK Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0789489937.
 * Burrows, George E. Toxic plants of North America. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8138-2034-7,.
 * Dirr, Michael. Dirr's hardy trees and shrubs: An illustrated encyclopedia. Timber Press, 1997. ISBN 0881924040.
 * Flora of North America Association. Flora of North America. Flora of North America Association..
 * Flora of North America Editorial Committee. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Oxford University Press, 1993–2006. ISBN 0195057139.
 * Gerard, John, Thomas Johnson. The herbal; or, General history of plants. Dover Publications, 1975. ISBN 048623147X.
 * Graf, Alfred Byrd. Exotica Series 4 International: Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants from Tropical and Near-Tropical Regions. Scribner's, 12th ed., 1985.
 * Graf, Alfred Byrd. Hortica: A Color Cyclopedia of Garden Flora in All Climates and Indoor Plants. Macmillan, 1992.
 * Graf, Alfred Byrd. Tropica: Color Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants. Scribner's, 3rd ed., 1986.
 * Herwig, Rob. The New Good Housekeeping Encyclopedia of House Plants. Hearst, rev. ed., 1990.
 * Heywood, V. H., D. M. Moore, I. B. K. Richardson. Flowering plants of the world. Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0195210379.
 * Heywood, Vernon H. and Stuart R. Chat. Popular Encyclopedia of Plants. Cambridge, 1982.
 * Hillier's Manual of Trees and Shrubs. Van Nostrand, 5th ed., 1983.
 * Hogan, Sean. Flora: A gardener's encyclopedia. Timber Press, 2003. ISBN 0881925381.
 * Hora, Bayard. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Trees of the World. Oxford, 1981.
 * Kaufman, Sylvan Ramsey, Wallace Kaufman. Invasive plants: A guide to identification and the impacts and control of common North American species. Stackpole Books, 2007. ISBN 0811733653.
 * Lowe, David W., John R. Matthews, Charles J. Moseley, World Wildlife Fund. The official World Wildlife Fund guide to endangered species of North America. Beacham, 1990–1994. ISBN 0933833172.
 * Mitchell, Alan. Trees of North America. Facts on File, 1987.
 * Moore, David M. The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of Plants and Earth Sciences. Marshall Cavendish, 1988.
 * Nelson, Lewis S., Richard Shih, Michael J. Balick, Lewis R. Goldfrank, Andrew Weil, New York Botanical Garden. Handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. New York Botanical Garden; Springer, 2007. ISBN 0387312684.
 * Ness, Bryan D. Magill's encyclopedia of science: Plant life. Salem Press, 2003. ISBN 1587650843.
 * Phillips, Ellen and Colston Burrell. Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials. Rodale, 1993.
 * Quattrocchi, Umberto. CRC world dictionary of grasses: Common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology. CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 0849313031.
 * Rätsch, Christian, Albert Hofmann, John R. Baker. The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants: Ethnopharmacology and its applications. Park Street Press, 2005. ISBN 0892819782.
 * Solomon, Jim, Missouri Botanical Garden. W3Tropicos: VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database. Missouri Botanical Garden..
 * Spellenberg, Richard. National Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers: Western region. Knopf, 2001. ISBN 0375402330.
 * Stace, Clive A., Hilli Thompson. New flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0521589355.
 * Stickney, Robert R. Encyclopedia of aquaculture. Wiley, 2000. ISBN 0471291013.
 * Thieret, John W, William A. Niering, Nancy C. Olmstead. National Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers: eastern region. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. ISBN 0375402322.
 * Turner, Nancy J., Adam F. Szczawinski. Common poisonous plants and mushrooms of North America. Timber Press, 1991. ISBN 0881921793.
 * Webere, Ewald. Invasive plant species of the world: A reference guide to environmental weeds. CABI, 2003. ISBN 0851996957.
 * Zomlefer, Wendy B. Guide to flowering plant families. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. ISBN 0807821608.

Botany and horticulture

 * Bradley, Fern Marshall & Barbara W. Ellis. Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener. Rodale, 1992.
 * Brickell, Christopher. American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 0789496534.
 * Everett, Thomas H. The New York Botanical Garden Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horticulture. Garland, 1981–1982.
 * Fell, Derek. The Encyclopedia of Flowers. Smithmark, 1993.
 * Huxley, Anthony. The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. Stockton Press, 1992.
 * Moggi, Guido and Luciano Guignolini. Simon & Schuster's Guide to Garden Flowers. Simon & Schuster, 1983.
 * Seymour, E. L. D. The Wise Garden Encyclopedia. HarperCollins, rev. ed., 1990.
 * Shoemaker, Candice A., Chicago Botanic Garden. Encyclopedia of gardens: History and design. Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. ISBN 1579581730.
 * Taylor, Patrick. The Oxford companion to the garden. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780198662556.
 * Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening. Houghton Mifflin, 4th ed., 1961.
 * Thomas, Brian, Denis J. Murphy, Brian G. Murray. Encyclopedia of applied plant sciences. Elsevier Academic, 2003. ISBN 0122270509.
 * Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook. Van Nostrand, 5th ed., 1990.
 * Woods, Christopher. Encyclopedia of Perennials: A Gardener's Guide. Facts on File, 1982.
 * Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia. Macmillan, 2nd ed., 1986.
 * Yepsen, Roger B., Jr. The Encyclopedia of Natural Insect and Disease Control. Rodale, rev. ed., 1984.

Trees

 * Burns, Russell M., Barbara H. Honkala, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service. Silvics of North America. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service. 1990..
 * Cafferty, Steve. Firefly encyclopedia of trees. Firefly Books, 2005. ISBN 1554070511.
 * Davis, Richard C. Encyclopedia of American forest and conservation history. Macmillan; Collier Macmillan, 1983. ISBN 0029073502.
 * Encyclopedia of Wood: A Tree-by-Tree Guide to the World's Most Versatile Resources. Facts on File, 1989.
 * Little, Elbert Luther, Sonja Bullaty, Angelo Lomeo, National Audubon Society. The Audubon Society field guide to North American trees. Knopf, 1980. ISBN 0394507614.
 * Plotnik, Arthur, Mary Phelan Morton Arboretum. The urban tree book: An uncommon field guide for city and town. Three Rivers Press, 2000. ISBN 0812931033.
 * Preston, Richard Joseph, Richard R. Braham. North American trees. Iowa State Press, 2002. ISBN 0813815266.
 * Rushforth, Keith, Charles Hollis. National Geographic field guide to the trees of North America. National Geographic, 2006. ISBN 0792253108.
 * Russell, Tony, Catherine Cutler. Trees: An illustrated identifier and encyclopedia. Hermes House, 2003. ISBN 1843099764.

Biochemistry

 * Scott, Thomas A. & Mary Brewer. Concise Encyclopedia of Biochemistry. Walter de Gruyter, 2nd ed., 1988.

Bioethics

 * Post, Stephen Garrard. Encyclopedia of bioethics. Third edition. Macmillan Reference USA, 2003. ISBN 0028657748. ; DOI:10.1108/09504120510573477. (5-Volume Set; 3062 pages).
 * Reich, Warren Thomas Encyclopedia of Bioethics. First edition. New York: Free Press, 1978.  ISBN 0029261805.  ISBN 978-0029261804.  (4-Volume Set; 1933 pages)
 * Reich, Warren Thomas Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Second edition. New York: Free Press, 1982.  (5-Volume Set; 2950 pages)
 * Reich, Warren Thomas Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Third edition. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1995; London: Simon and Schuster and Prentice Hall International, c1995. Rev. ed. (5-Volume Set; 2950 pages; 464 articles) ISBN 0028973550. ISBN 978-0028973555.

Agriculture

 * American Veterinary Medical Association. AVMA: American Veterinary Medical Association. American Veterinary Medical Association, 2006-..
 * Arntzen, Charles J. and Ellen M. Ritter. Encyclopedia of agricultural science. Academic Press, 1994. ISBN 0122266706.
 * Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Cyclopedia of American agriculture. Macmillan, 1909.
 * Bailey, L. H., Ethel Zoe Bailey, Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada. Macmillan, 1976. ISBN 0025054708.
 * Bains, William. Biotechnology from A to Z. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0198524986.
 * Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Janet Marinelli, and Stephen K-M. Tim. Brooklyn Botanic Garden gardener's desk reference. Henry Holt, 1998. ISBN 0805050957.
 * Burns, Russell M., Barbara H. Honkala, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service. Silvics of North America. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1990..
 * Burrows, George E. Toxic plants of North America. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. ISBN 0813820340..
 * Cordell, Charles E., U.S. Forest Service. Forest nursery pests. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1989.
 * Davis, Richard C. Encyclopedia of American forest and conservation history. Macmillan; Collier Macmillan, 1983. ISBN 0029073502.
 * Felius, Marleen. Cattle breeds: An encyclopedia. Misset, 1995. ISBN 9054390174.
 * Flickinger, Michael C. and Steven W. Drew. Encyclopedia of bioprocess technology: Fermentation, biocatalysis, and bioseparation. John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
 * Goodman, Robert M. Encyclopedia of plant and crop science. M. Dekker, 2004. ISBN 0824709446..
 * Goreham, Gary. Encyclopedia of rural America: The land and people. ABC-CLIO, 1997. ISBN 0874368421.
 * Hanelt, Peter, R. Buttner, Rudolf Mansfield Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung Gatersleben, Germany. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops (except ornamentals). Springer, 2001. ISBN 3540410171.
 * Heldman, Dennis R. Encyclopedia of agricultural, food, and biological engineering. Marcel Dekker, 2003. ISBN 0824709381.
 * Hillel, Daniel and Jerry L. Hatfield. Encyclopedia of soils in the environment. Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005. ISBN 0123485304.
 * Holton, James R., Judith A. Curry, J. A. Pyle. Encyclopedia of atmospheric sciences. Academic Press, 2003. ISBN 0122270908.
 * Howard, Philip H. Hearth Taub Printup. Handbook of environmental degradation rates. Lewis, 1991. ISBN 0873713583.
 * Johnson, Warren T., Howard H. Lyon, C. S. Koehler. Insects that feed on trees and shrubs. Comstock Publishing Associates, 1991. ISBN 0801426022.
 * Knobil, Ernst and Jimmy D. Neill. Encyclopedia of reproduction. Academic Press, 1998. ISBN 0122270207.
 * Lal, R. Encyclopedia of soil science. Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 0849350530.
 * Lederberg, Joshua. Encyclopedia of microbiology. Academic Press, 2000. ISBN 0122268008.
 * Lord, Tony and Andrew Lawson. The encyclopedia of planting combinations: The ultimate visual guide to successful plant harmony. Firefly, 2002. ISBN 1552096238.
 * Maloy, Otis C. and Timothy D. Murray. Encyclopedia of plant pathology. Wiley, 2001. ISBN 0471298174.
 * Melhorn, Heinz. Encyclopedia of parasitology. Springer, 2008. ISBN 3540489975.
 * Montgomery, John H. Agrochemicals desk reference. CRC Press, 1997. ISBN 1566701678.
 * Nau, Jim. Ball culture guide: The encyclopedia of seed germination. Ball, 1999. ISBN 188305219X.
 * Plimmer, Jack R. Encyclopedia of agrochemicals. Wiley-Interscience, 2003. ISBN 0471193631.
 * Quattrocchi, Umberto. CRC world dictionary of grasses: Common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology. CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 0849313031.
 * Roginski, Hubert, John W. Puquay, P. F. Fox. Encyclopedia of dairy sciences. Academic Press, 2003. ISBN 0122272358..
 * Schapsmeier, Edward L. and Frederick H. Schapsmeier. Encyclopedia of American Agricultural History. Greenwood, 1975.
 * Scharpf, Robert, U. S. Forest Service. Diseases of Pacific Coast conifers. Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1993. ISBN 0160417651.
 * Solomon, J. D., U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service. Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1995.
 * Stickney, Robert R. Encyclopedia of aquaculture. Wiley, 2000. ISBN 0471291013.
 * Talbot, Ross B. Historical dictionary of the international food agencies: FAO, WFP, WFC, IFAD. Scarecrow Press, 1994. ISBN 0810828472.
 * Thomas, Brian, Denis J. Murphy, Brian G. Murray. Encyclopedia of applied plant sciences. Elsevier Academic, 2003. ISBN 0122270509.
 * U. S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA directory. Food and Drug Law Institute, 1900s–.
 * Wexler, Philip, Bruce D. Anderson, Ann de Peyster. Encyclopedia of toxicology. Elsevier Academic, 2005. ISBN 0127453512.
 * Wrigley, Colin W., Harold Corke, Charles E. Walker. Encyclopedia of grain science. Elsevier Academic Press, 2004. ISBN 0127654909.

Food

 * Albala, Ken. Food cultures of the world encyclopedia. Greenwood, 2011. ISBN 9780313376269.
 * Claiborne, Craig. The New York Times Food Encyclopedia. Times Books, 1985.
 * Considine, Douglas M. & Glenn D. Considine. Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia. Van Nostrand, 1982.
 * Coyle, L. Patrick, Jr.. The World Encyclopedia of Food. Facts on File, 1982.
 * Encyclopedia of Food Engineering. 2nd ed., AVI Publishing, 1986.
 * Encyclopedia of Food Science. AVI Publishing, 1978.
 * Encyclopedia of Food Technology. AVI Publishing, 1974.
 * Ensminger, Audrey H. Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia. Pegus Press, 1983.
 * Francis, F. J. Encyclopedia of food science and technology. Wiley, 2000. ISBN 0471192856.
 * Horn, Jane and Janet Fletcher. Cooking A to Z. Ortho Books, 1988.
 * Hui, Y. H. Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology. Wiley, 1992.
 * Hui, Y. H., and J. D. Culbertson. Handbook of food science, technology, and engineering. Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 9780849398476.
 * Kraig, Bruce and Colleen Taylor Sen. Street food around the world: an encyclopedia of food and culture. ABC-CLIO, 2013. ISBN 9781598849547.
 * Macrae, Robert. Encyclopedia of Food Science, Food Technology, and Nutrition. Academic Press, 1993.
 * Mariani, John F. The Dictionary of American Food and Drink. 2nd ed., Hearst, 1994.
 * Montagne, Prosper & Robert J. Courtine. Larousse Gastronomique: All-New American Edition of the World's Greatest Culinary Encyclopedia. Rev. ed., Crown, 1988.
 * Stobart, Tom. Cook's Encyclopedia. Harper & Row, 1981.

Nutrition

 * Ensminger, Audrey H. Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia. Pegus Press, 1983.
 * Food for Health: A Nutrition Encyclopedia. Pegus Press, 1986.
 * Margen, Sheldon. The Wellness Encyclopedia of Food and Nutrition: How to Buy, Store, and Prepare Every Variety of Fresh Food. Rebus, 1992.
 * Mount Sinai School of Medicine Complete Book of Nutrition. St. Martin's Press, 1990.
 * Tver, David F. and Percy Russell. Nutrition and Health Encyclopedia. 2nd ed., Van Nostrand, 1989.
 * Winick, Myron. The Columbia Encyclopedia of Nutrition. Putnam, 1988.
 * Yudin, John. Penguin Encyclopedia of Nutrition. Viking, 1985.

Wines, beers, and spirits

 * Alexis Lichine's New Encyclopedia of Wines and Spirits. 5th ed., Knopf, 1987.
 * Grossman's Guide to Wines, Beers, & Spirits. 7th ed., Scribner's, 1983.
 * Hugh Johnson's Modern Encyclopedia of Wine. 3rd ed., Simon & Schuster, 1991.
 * Hugh Johnson's World Atlas of Wine. 3rd ed., Simon & Schuster, 1985.
 * Robinson, Jancis. The Oxford companion to wine. Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 019866236X.
 * Schoonmaker, Frank. The New Frank Schoonmaker Encyclopedia of Wine. Rev. ed., Morrow, 1988.

Health, medicine, and drugs

 * Adelman, George. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Birkhauser Boston, 1987.
 * Fishbein, Morris. Fishbein's Illustrated Medical and Health Encyclopedia. H. S. Struttman, 1983.
 * Who's who in medicine and healthcare. Marquis Who's Who, 1996–..

Drugs

 * Plumb, Donald C. Plumb's veterinary drug handbook. PharmaVet ; Distributed by Wiley, c2011. ISBN 9780470959640.
 * Rätsch, Christian, Albert Hofmann, John R. Baker. The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants: Ethnopharmacology and its applications. Park Street Press, 2005. ISBN 0892819782.
 * Stafford, Peter. Psychedelics Encyclopedia. 3rd ed., Ronin Publishing, 1992.
 * Swarbrick, James and James C. Boylan. Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology. Marcel Dekker, 1988-.

Drug and alcohol abuse

 * Evans, Glen. The Encyclopedia of Drug Abuse. 2nd ed., Facts on File, 1991.
 * Fay, John. Alcohol/Drug Abuse Dictionary and Encyclopedia. Charles C. Thomas, 1988.
 * O'Brien, Robert & Morris Chaftetz. The Encyclopedia of Alcoholism. 2nd ed., Facts on File, 1991.

Health

 * Fink, George. Encyclopedia of stress. Elsevier, 2007. ISBN 0120885034.
 * Macmillan Health Encyclopedia. Macmillan, 1993.
 * The Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of Family Health. Marshall Cavendish, 1991.
 * U.S. National Library Medicine (2012): MedlinePlus including the freely accessible Medical Encyclopedia.
 * Wellness Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
 * Fink, George. Encyclopedia of stress. Elsevier, 2007. ISBN 0120885034.
 * Macmillan Health Encyclopedia. Macmillan, 1993.
 * The Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of Family Health. Marshall Cavendish, 1991.
 * U.S. National Library Medicine (2012): MedlinePlus including the freely accessible Medical Encyclopedia.
 * Wellness Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
 * Macmillan Health Encyclopedia. Macmillan, 1993.
 * The Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of Family Health. Marshall Cavendish, 1991.
 * U.S. National Library Medicine (2012): MedlinePlus including the freely accessible Medical Encyclopedia.
 * Wellness Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
 * Macmillan Health Encyclopedia. Macmillan, 1993.
 * The Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of Family Health. Marshall Cavendish, 1991.
 * U.S. National Library Medicine (2012): MedlinePlus including the freely accessible Medical Encyclopedia.
 * Wellness Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
 * The Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of Family Health. Marshall Cavendish, 1991.
 * U.S. National Library Medicine (2012): MedlinePlus including the freely accessible Medical Encyclopedia.
 * Wellness Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
 * U.S. National Library Medicine (2012): MedlinePlus including the freely accessible Medical Encyclopedia.
 * Wellness Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
 * U.S. National Library Medicine (2012): MedlinePlus including the freely accessible Medical Encyclopedia.
 * Wellness Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
 * U.S. National Library Medicine (2012): MedlinePlus including the freely accessible Medical Encyclopedia.
 * Wellness Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
 * U.S. National Library Medicine (2012): MedlinePlus including the freely accessible Medical Encyclopedia.
 * Wellness Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
 * U.S. National Library Medicine (2012): MedlinePlus including the freely accessible Medical Encyclopedia.
 * Wellness Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
 * Wellness Encyclopedia. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Physical disorders

 * Wynbrandt, James & Mark D. Ludman. The Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects. Facts on File, 1991.

Hearing disorders

 * Turkington, Carol and Allen Sussman. Encyclopedia of Deafness and Hearing Disorders. Facts on File, 1992.
 * Van Cleve, John V. Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness. McGraw-Hill, 1987.

Vision impairment

 * Sardegna, Jill & T. Otis Paul. The Encyclopedia of Blindness and Vision Impairment. Facts on File, 1991.

Women's health

 * Ammer, Christine. The New A to Z of Women's Health: A Concise Encyclopedia. Facts on File, 1989.
 * Foley, Denise and Eileen Nechas. Women's Encyclopedia of Health & Emotional Healing. Rodale, 1993.
 * New Our Bodies, Ourselves. Rev. ed., Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Medicine

 * Bailey, Hamilton, W. J. Bishop, Harold Ellis. Bailey and Bishop's notable names in medicine and surgery. Lewis, 1983. ISBN 0718604660.
 * Bendiner, Jessica, Elmer Bendiner. Biographical dictionary of medicine. Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 0816018642.
 * Berkow, Robert. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. 16th ed., Merck, 1992.
 * Bremer, Sydney, Jeffrey H. Miller, William Broughton. Encyclopedia of genetics. Academic Press, 2002. ISBN 0122270800.
 * Bynum, W. F., Helen Bynum. Dictionary of medical biography. Greenwood Press, 2006. ISBN 0313328773.
 * Clayman, Charles B. The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine. Random House, 1989.
 * Delves, Peter J., Ivan M. Roitt. Encyclopedia of immunology. Academic Press, 1998. ISBN 0122267656.
 * Fischer, Isidor. Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten 50 Jahre. 1932–33.
 * Ganten, Detlev, Klaus Ruckpaul. Encyclopedic reference of genomics and proteomics in molecular medicine. Springer, 2005. ISBN 3540442448.
 * Gomez, Joan. Dictionary of Symptoms. Rev. ed., Stein & Day, 1985.
 * Griffith, H. Winter. Complete Guide to Symptoms, Illness & Surgery. 2nd ed., Price Stern Sloan, 1989.
 * Hafner, Arthur Wayne, Fred W. Hunter, B. Michael Tarpey. Directory of deceased American physicians, 1804–1929: A genealogical guide to over 149,000 medical practitioners providing brief biographical sketches drawn from the American Medical Association's Deceased Physician Masterfile. American Medical Association, c1993. ISBN 0899705278.
 * Hirsch, August, Ernst Julius Gurlt, A. Wernich, W. Haberling. Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker. Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1929–1934. (German)
 * Jorde, Lynn B. Encyclopedia of genetics, genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics. John Wiley and Sons, 2005. ISBN 9780470849743.
 * Kahl, Günter. The dictionary of gene technology: Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics. Wiley-VCH, 2004. ISBN 3527307656.
 * Kaufman, Martin, Stuart Galishoff, Todd Lee Savitt. Dictionary of American medical biography. Greenwood Press, 1984. ISBN 031321378X.
 * Kazazian, Haig H., John Wiley & Sons. Wiley encyclopedia of molecular medicine. John Wiley & Sons, 2002. ISBN 0471374946.
 * Kaufman, Martin, Joellen Watson Hawkins, Loretta P. Higgins, Alice Howell Friedman. Dictionary of American nursing biography. Greenwood Press, 1988. ISBN 0313245207.
 * Kelly, Howard A., Walter L. Burrage. Dictionary of American medical biography: Lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times. London: D. Appleton and Co., 1928.
 * Leroy, Francis. A century of Nobel prize recipients: Chemistry, physics, and medicine. Marcel Dekker, 2003. ISBN 0824708768.
 * Levin, Beatrice. Women and medicine. Scarecrow Press, 2002. ISBN 0810842386.
 * Magner, Lois N. Doctors, nurses, and medical practitioners: A bio-bibliographical sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1997. ISBN 0313294526.
 * Marquis Who's Who. Who's who in medicine and healthcare. Marquis Who's Who, 1996-.
 * Martin, Edward A., Peter Froggatt. A biographical encyclopedia of medical travel authors. Edwin Mellen Press, 2010–. ISBN 9780773436817.
 * Meyers, Robert A. Encyclopedia of molecular cell biology and molecular medicine. Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2004–2005. ISBN 3527305432.
 * Miller, Sigmund. Symptoms: The Complete Home Medical Encyclopedia. Crowell, 1976.
 * Mosby Medical Encyclopedia. Rev. ed., Penguin USA, 1992.
 * Munk, William, G. H. Brown, Richard Robertson Trail. The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London: Comprising biographical sketches of all the eminent physicians whose names are recorded in the Annals... Royal College of Physicians of London, 1878–.
 * Pagel, Julius. Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1901. (German).
 * Physician's Desk Reference. Medical Economics, 1947-.
 * Pinzon, Soledad Mata, Carlos Zolla, Diego Méndez Granados Instituto Nacional Indigenista (Mexico). Diccionario enciclopédico de la medicina tradicional mexicana. Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1994. ISBN 9682961335.
 * Rédei, G. P. Encyclopedic dictionary of genetics, genomics, and proteomics. Wiley-Liss, 2003. ISBN 0471268216.
 * Riott, Ivan M. & Peter J. Delves. Encyclopedia of Immunology. Academic Press, 1992.
 * Rosenfeld, Isadore. Symptoms. Simon & Schuster, 1989.
 * Rothenberg, Robert. New Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia for Home Use. Rev. ed., Galahad, 1986.
 * Scrivener, Laurice, J. Suzanne Barnes. A biographical dictionary of women healers: Midwives, nurses, and physicians. Oryx Press, 2002. ISBN 157356219X.
 * Talbot, C. H., Eugene Ashby Hammond. The medical practitioners in medieval England: A biographical register. Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965.
 * Tver, David F. & Howard F. Hunt. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sports Medicine. Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1986.
 * Walton, John. The Oxford Companion to Medicine. Oxford, 1986.
 * Webster, John G. Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation. Wiley, 1988.
 * Windsor, Laura Lynn. Women in medicine: An encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2002. ISBN 1576073920.
 * The World Book/Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center Medical Encyclopedia: Your Guide to Good Health. World Book, 1991.

History of medicine

 * Bynum, W. F. and Roy Porter. Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine. Routledge, 1994.
 * McGrew, Roderick E. and Margaret P. McGrew. Encyclopedia of Medical History. McGraw-Hill, 1985.

Medical ethics

 * Boyd, Kenneth M., Roger Higgs, A. J. Pinching. The new dictionary of medical ethics. BMJ Publ., 1997. ISBN 0727910019.

Medical tests

 * Griffith, H. Winter. Complete Guide to Medical Tests. Fisher Books, 1988.
 * Pinckney, Cathey and Edward R. Pinckney. Do-It-Yourself Medical Testing. 3rd ed., Facts on File, 1989.
 * Pinckney, Cathey and Edward R. Pinckney. The Patient's Guide to Medical Tests. 3rd ed., Facts on File, 1986.
 * Shtasel, Philip. Medical Tests and Diagnostic Procedures. HarperCollins, 1991.
 * Sobel, David and Tom Ferguson. People's Book of Medical Tests. Summit Books, 1985.

Natural and alternative medicine

 * Bricklin, Mark. Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing. Rev. ed., Rodale, 1983.
 * Bricklin, Mark. Rodale's Encyclopedia of Natural Home Remedies. Rodale, 1982.
 * Murray, Michael T. & Joseph E. Pizzorno. An Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine. Prima Publishing, 1991.
 * Olsen, Kristin. Encyclopedia of Alternative Health Care. Pocket Books, 1990.
 * Visual Encyclopedia of Natural Healing. Rodale, 1991.
 * Wade, Carlson. Home Encyclopedia of Symptoms, Ailments, and Their Natural Remedies. Parker, 1991.

Nursing

 * Marquis Who's Who. Who's who in American nursing. Marquis Who's Who, 1984-.

Veterinary medicine

 * American Veterinary Medical Association. AVMA: American Veterinary Medical Association. American Veterinary Medical Association, 2006-..
 * Concise Veterinary Dictionary. Oxford, 1988.
 * Griffin, James and Tom Gore. Horse Owner's Veterinary Handbook. Howell Book House, 1989.
 * Merck Veterinary Manual. Merck.
 * Plumb, Donald C. Plumb's veterinary drug handbook. PharmaVet ; Distributed by Wiley, c2011. ISBN 9780470959640.
 * West, Geoffrey. Black's Veterinary Dictionary. Barnes & Noble Books, 1992.

Microbiology

 * Britton, Gabriel. Encyclopedia of environmental microbiology. Wiley, 2002. ISBN 0471354503.
 * Lederberg, Joshua. Encyclopedia of microbiology. Academic Press, 2000. ISBN 0122268008.

Neuroscience

 * Houdé, Olivier Daniel Kayser, Vivian Waltz, Christian Cav. Dictionary of cognitive science: Neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and philosophy. Psychology Press, 2004. ISBN 1579582516.

Prehistoric life

 * Dixon, Dougal. The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life. Macmillan, 1988.
 * Encyclopedia of Prehistoric Life. McGraw-Hill, 1979.

Shells

 * Abbott, Tucker and Peter Dance. Compendium of Seashells. American Melacologists, 4th ed., 1990.
 * Collector's Encyclopedia of Shells. McGraw-Hill, 1982.
 * Rehder, Harald Alfred, James H. Carmichael, Jr., Carol Nehring, National Audubon Society. The Audubon Society field guide to North American seashells. Knopf, 1981. ISBN 0394519132.
 * Wye, Kenneth F. The Encyclopedia of Shells. Facts on File, 1991.
 * Murray, Michael T.