Smith, John A. and Jenks, Chris (2017) Sociology and Human Ecology: Complexity and Posthumanist Perspectives. Complexity in The Social Sciences . Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 978-1138230095

Smith, John A. (2014) Memories of childhood in post-war Grimsby. Childhood in the Past, 7 (2). pp. 82-94. ISSN 1758-5716 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1179/1758571614Z.00000000019)

Smith, John A. (2013) The construction of childhood, learning and play: an evolutionary and ecological revision. Youth & Policy, 111. pp. 44-57. ISSN 0262-9798