Mead, James G. 1975. "Preliminary Report on the Former Net Fisheries for Tursiops truncatus in the Western North-Atlantic." Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 32, (7) 1155–1162. https://doi.org/10.1139/f75-136.
Brownell, Robert L., Jr., Archer, Frederick I., Ballance, Lisa T., Jefferson, Thomas A., Mead, James G., Mesnick, Sarah L., Reeves, Randall R., and Taylor, Barbara L. 2023. "William F. Perrin 1938-2022." Marine Mammal Science, 39, (1) 356–362. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12996.
Carroll, Emma L., McGowen, Michael R., McCarthy, Morgan L., Marx, Felix G., Aguilar De Soto, Natacha, Dalebout, Merel L., Dreyer, Sascha, Gaggiotti, Oscar E., Hansen, Sabine S., van Helden, Anton, Onoufriou, Aubrie B., Baird, Robin W., Baker, C. Scott, Berrow, Simon, Cholewiak, Danielle, Claridge, Diane, Constantine, Rochelle, Davison, Nicholas J., Eira, Catarina, Fordyce, R. Ewan, Gatesy, John, Hofmeyr, G. J. Greg, Martin, Vidal, Mead, James G., Mignucci-Giannoni, Antonio A. et al. 2021. [Dataset] Speciation in the abyss - genomics and morphology reveal a new species of beaked whale. Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.WPZGMSBNQ.
Walker, W. A., Mead, James G., and Brownell, Robert L., Jr. 2002. "Diets of Baird's Beaked Whales, Beradius Bairdii, in the Southern Sea of Okhotsk and off the Pacific Coast of Honshu, Japan." Marine Mammal Science, 18, (4) 902–919.
Dalebout, M. L., Mead, James G., Baker, C. S., Baker, A. N., and van Helden, A. L. 2002. "A new species of beaked whale Mesoplodon perrini sp N. (Cetacea : Ziphiidae) discovered through phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences." Marine Mammal Science, 18, (3) 577–608.
Laist, D. W., Knowlton, A. R., Mead, James G., Collet, A. S., and Podesta, M. 2001. "Collisions between ships and whales." Marine Mammal Science, 17, (1) 35–75.
Curry, B. E., Mead, James G., and Purgue, A. P. 1994. "The Occurrence of Calculi in the Nasal Diverticula of Porpoises (Phocoenidae)." Marine Mammal Science, 10, (1) 81–86.
Perrin, William F. and Mead, James G. 1994. "Clymene dolphin Stenella clymene (Gray, 1846)." In 1994 Handbook of Marine Mammals. The First Book of Dolphins. Ridgway, S. H. and Harrison, R., editors. 161–171. New York: Academic Press.
Mead, James G. 1990. "Natural History of Bottlenose Dolphins Along the Central Atlantic Coast of the United States." In The Bottlenose Dolphin. 653. New York: Academic Press.
Sections on Mesoplodon hectori, M. mirus, M. europaeus, M. ginkgodens, M. grayi, M. stejnegeri, M. carlhubbsi, M. bowdoini, M. layardii, M. bidens and M. densirostris
Mead, James G. 1990. "Sections on Mesoplodon hectori, M. mirus, M. europaeus, M. ginkgodens, M. grayi, M. stejnegeri, M. carlhubbsi, M. bowdoini, M. layardii, M. bidens and M. densirostris." In Whales and Dolphins. Martin, A. R., editor. 192. London and New York: Salamander Books ltd.
Mead, James G. and Potter, Charles W. 1988. "Seldom Seen Species." In The World's Whales -- A Closer Look. 103–109. Monterey, California: American Cetacean Society, Third Biennial Conference and Symposium.
Hansen, Larry J., Perrin, William F., Sokolov, Anatoli S., and Mead, James G. 1984. "A List of American and Soviet Institutions Possessing Collections of Osteological Specimens from Pinnipeds and Sea Otters." In Soviet-American Cooperative Research on Marine Mammals. Fay, F. H. and Fedoseev, G. A., editors. 101–104.
Hare, M. P. and Mead, James G. 1987. Handbook for the Determination of Adverse Human-maMarine Mammal Interactions from Necropsies. In NWAFC Processed Report 87-06.
Mead, James G. 1979. "An Analysis of Cetacean Strandings along the Eastern Coast of the United States." In Biology of Marine Mammals: Insights through Strandings. Geraci, J. B. and St. Aubin, D. J., editors. 54–68.
Skinder, C. and Mead, James G. 1979. "Marine Mammal Strandings: On Site Problems and Solutions." In Biology of Marine Mammals: Insights through Strandings. Geraci, J. B. and St. Aubin, D. J., editors. 248–261.