Book
Jell, J. S. (John Samuel) and Flood, P. G. (Peter Gerard) (1978). Guide to the geology of reefs of the Capricorn and Bunker Groups, Great Barrier Reef Province, with special reference to Heron Reef. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.
Book Chapters
Jell, J. S. (2013). Peninsula basin. Geology of Queensland. (pp. 540-541) edited by Peter A. Jell. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Geological Survey of Queensland.
Jell, J. S. (2013). Quaternary: offshore eastern Queensland. Geology of Queensland. (pp. 669-683) edited by Peter A. Jell. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Geological Survey of Queensland.
Jell, J. S. and Cook, A. G. (2013). Paleogene and Neogene. Geology of Queensland. (pp. 577-652) edited by Peter A. Jell. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Geological Survey of Queensland.
Jell, J. S. (2013). Papuan Basin. Geology of Queensland. (pp. 541-542) edited by Peter A. Jell. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Geological Survey of Queensland.
Journal Articles
Munson, T. J. and Jell, J. S. (2016). Wenlock and ludlow (Silurian) rugose corals from the type section of the jack formation, broken river province, northeast Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 59, 273-320. doi: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.59.2016.2016-06
Bryan, Scott E., Cook, Alex G., Evans, Jason P., Hebden, Kerry, Hurrey, Lucy, Colls, Peter, Jell, John S., Weatherley, Dion and Firn, Jennifer (2012). Rapid, long-distance dispersal by pumice rafting. PLoS One, 7 (7) e40583, e40583.1-e40583.7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040583
Jell, John S. and Webb, Gregory E. (2012). Geology of Heron Island and adjacent reefs, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Episodes, 35 (1), 110-119. doi: 10.18814/epiiugs/2012/v35i1/010
Dixon, Owen A. and Jell, John S. (2012). Heliolitine tabulate corals from Late Ordovician and possibly early Silurian allochthonous limestones in the Broken River Province, Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa, 36 (1), 69-98. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2011.582807
Jell, John S., Cook, Alex G. and Jell, Peter A. (2011). Australian Cretaceous cnidaria and porifera. Alcheringa, 35 (2), 241-284. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2011.532322
Shen, J-W., Webb, G.E. and Jell, John S. (2008). Platform margins, reef facies, and microbial carbonates; a comparison of Devonian reef complexes in the Canning Basin, Western Australia, and the Guilin region, South China. Earth Science Reviews, 88 (1-2), 33-59. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2008.01.002
Brownlaw, R. L. S. and Jell, John (2008). Middle and Upper Devonian rugose corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Memoirs, Memoir 35, 1-126.
Frank, Tracy, D. and Jell, John S. (2006). Recent developments on a nearshore, terrigenous-influenced reef: Low Isles Reef, Australia. Journal Of Coastal Research, 22 (3), 474-486. doi: 10.2112/03-0127.1
Bryan, SE, Cook, A, Evans, J. P., Colls, P. W., Wells, M. G., Lawrence, M. G., Jell, J. S., Greig, A. and Leslie, R. (2004). Pumice rafting and faunal dispersion during 2001-2002 in the Southwest Pacific: record of a dacitic submarine explosive eruption from Tonga. Earth And Planetary Science Letters, 227 (1-2), 135-154. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.08.009
Hladil, J., Carew, J. L ., Mylroie, J. E., Pruner, P., Kohout, T., Jell, J. S., Lacka, B. and Langrova, A. (2004). Anomalous magnetic susceptibility values and traces of subsurface microbial activity in carbonate banks on San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Facies, 50 (2), 161-182. doi: 10.1007/s10347-004-0013-x
Rickards, R. B. and Jell, J. (2002). New graptolite faunas from the Llandovery, lower Silurian of the Graveyard Creek Subprovince, Broken River region, Queensland, Australia. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 113 (2), 111-120. doi: 10.1016/S0016-7878(02)80014-1
Webb, G.E. and Jell, J. (2002). A new species of Palaeacis from Western Australian. Coral Research Bulletin, 7, 221-227.
Neil, D. T. and Jell, J. (2001). Aspects of the climate and geomorphology of Noth East Cay, Herald Cays, and its reef: A preliminary report. Geography Monograph Series - Herald Cays Scientific Study Report, 6, 131-141.
Zhen, Y.Y., Wright, AJ and Jell, J. (2001). Rugose coral diversifications and migrations in the devonian of Australasia. Historial Biology, 15 (1-2), 61-76. doi: 10.1080/10292380109380582
Ryan, D. A., Opdyke, B. N. and Jell, J. S. (2001). Holocene sediments of Wistari Reef: towards a global quantification of coral reef related neritic sedimentation in the Holocene. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 175 (1-4), 173-184. doi: 10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00370-4
Neil, D. T. and Jell, J. (2001). Pisonia grandis ecosystem stability in response to geomorphic change: An hypothesis. Geography Monograph Series - Herald Cays Scientific Study Report, 6, 143-150.
Campbell, K. S. W. and Jell, J. S. (1999). Dorothy Hill, A.C., C.B.E.. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 45, 195-217.
Webb, Gregory E., Jell, John S. and Baker, Julian C. (1999). Cryptic intertidal microbialites in beachrock, Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef: Implications for the origin of microcrystalline beachrock cement. Sedimentary Geology, 126 (1-4), 317-334. doi: 10.1016/S0037-0738(99)00047-0
Munson, T. J. and Jell, J. (1999). Llandovery rugose corals from the Quinton formation, Broken River Province, northeast Queensland. Memoir 21 of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 21, 1-65.
Jell, P. and Jell, J. (1999). Crinoids, a blastoid and a cyclocysoid from the Upper Devonian Reef complex of the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 43 (1), 201-236.
Baker, Julian C., Jell, John S., Hacker, Jennifer L. F. and Baublys, Kim A. (1998). Origin of recent insular phosphate rock on a coral cay - Raine Island, Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 68 (5), 1001-1008. doi: 10.2110/jsr.68.1001
Brownlaw, R. L.S., Hocking, R. M. and Jell, J. S. (1996). High frequency sea-level fluctuations in the Pillara Limestone, Guppy Hills, Lennard Shelf, northwestern Australia. Historical Biology, 11 (1-4), 187-212. doi: 10.1080/10292389609380541
Playford, G. and Jell, J. S. (1985). Drummond Basin. The Carboniferous of the World, II, 20, 60-62.
Swart, P. K., Wilson, A. E. and Jell, J. S. (1983). Oxygen isotope variation on a lagoonal platform reef, Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Marine and Freshwater Research, 34 (5), 813-819. doi: 10.1071/MF9830813
Hamilton, SE, King, G, Tesch, D, Riddles, PW, Keough, DT, Jell, J and Zerner, B (1982). Gamma-Carboxyglutamic Acid in Invertebrates - its Identification in Hermatypic Corals. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 108 (2), 610-613. doi: 10.1016/0006-291X(82)90872-5
Jell J.S. (1981). Silurian tabulate corals from the cloudmaker moraine, beardmore glacier, Antarctica. Alcheringa, 5 (4), 311-316. doi: 10.1080/03115518108566998
Jell, J. S. (John Samuel) and Flood, P. G. (Peter Gerard, 1946-) (1978). Guide to the Geology of Reefs of the Capricorn and Bunker Groups, Great Barrier Reef Province with special reference to the Heron Reef. Papers (University of Queensland. Dept. of Geology), 8 (3), 1-85.
Conference Papers
Sorauf, James E., Ezaki, Yoichi, Fedorowski, Jerzy, Jell, John S., Kato, Makoto, Morycowa, Elzbieta and Roniewicz, Ewa (2012). Mentors: the generation 1935-1985. XIth International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Liege, Belgium, 19-29 August 2011. Liege, Belgium: Universite de Liege.
Ryan, David A., Opdyke, Bradley N. and Jell, John S. (2001). Holocene sediments of Wistari Reef: Towards a global quantification of coral reef related neritic sedimentation in the Holocene. doi: 10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00370-4
Ryan, D. A. and Jell, J. (2000). Holocene sediments of the Heron-Wistari reef platform: A new model for platform reef evolution. Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Indonesia, October 23-27, 2000. Bali, Indonesia: State Ministry for the Environment, Indonesian Inst. of Sci..
Jell, J. (2000). Supratidal & intertidal lithification on Raine Island, Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Indonesia, October, 23-27, 2000. Bali, Indonesia: State Ministry for the Environment, Indonesian Inst. of Sci..
Neil, D. T., Jell, J., Brownlaw, R., Frankel, E. and Phinn, S. R. (1999). Geomorphology and turtle nesting on Raine Island (Northern GBR). Australian Coral Reef Society Annual Scientific Conference, South Molle Island, Queensland, 3-6 September, 1999. Brisbane: Aust. Coral Reef Society.
Jell, J., Neil, D. T., Frankel, E. and Brownlaw, R. (1999). Geomorphology of Raine Island and Moulter Cay: A new class of coral reef island. XIX Pacific Science Congress, Univ. Sydney, 4-9 July, 1999. Sydney: Pacific Science Association.
Jell, J. and Sorauf, J. E. (1999). Tubipora musica Linnaeus, its calcitic skeleton and palaeontological significance. 8th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 12-16 September, 1999. Sendai, Japan: Int. Assn. for the Study of Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera.