Stephenson, W. (1945). Concentration regulation and volume control in Lumbricus terrestris L. Nature, 155 (3943), 635.
Stephenson, W. (1949). Certain effects of agitation upon the release of phosphate from mud. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 28 (2), 371-380.
Stephenson, W. (1952). Faunistic records from Queensland: Part 1 and II. Papers (University of Queensland. Dept. of Zoology). 1(1).
Dall, W., & Stephenson, W. (1953). A bibliography of the marine invertebrates of Queensland. Papers (University of Queensland. Dept. of Zoology). 1(2).
Stephenson, W. (1953). The natural history of Somerset Dam and its fishing potentialities. Ichthyological notes, No. 2.
Stephenson, W. and Wells, J.W. (1956). The corals of Low Isles, Queensland. Papers (University of Queensland. Dept. of Zoology): 1(4).
Stephenson, W., Hudson, Joy J. and Campbell, B. (1957). The Australian portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae). II. The Genus Charybidis. Australian journal of marine and freshwater research, 8(4): 491-507.
Stephenson, W. (1957). Key to the genera of reef building corals of Queensland. Unpublished.
Stephenson, W. (1957). Outdoor studies on living animals in Queensland. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
Stephenson, W., & Campbell, B. (1959). The Australian portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae). III. The genus Portunus. Marine and Freshwater Research, 10 (1), 84-123.
Stephenson, W., & Campbell, B. (1960). The Australian portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae). IV. Remaining genera. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 11(1), 73-122.
Stephenson, W., & Searles, R. B. (1960). Experimental Studies on the Ecology of Intertidal Environments at Heron Island. I. Exclusion of Fish from Beach Rock. Marine and Freshwater Research, 11(2), 241-268.
Hailstone, T.S. and Stephenson, W. (1961). The biology of Callianassa (Trypaea) australiensis Dana 1852 (Crustacea, Thalassinidea). Papers (University of Queensland. Dept of Zoology): 1(12).
Stephenson, W. (1961). The Australian portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae). V. Recent collections. Marine and Freshwater Research, 12 (1), 92-128.
Stephenson, W. (1964). Impressions of Universities and Marine Laboratories. BioScience, 14(5), 59-59.
Stephenson, W. and Rees, M. (1965). Ecological and life history studies upon a large foraminferan (Discobetellina biperforata Collins 1958) from Moreton Bay, Queensland. Papers (University of Queensland. Dept. of Zoology) 2(10).
Rees, M., & Stephenson, W. (1966). Some portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae) mostly from Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 78(3), pp. 29–42.
Garth, J. S., & Stephenson, W. (1966). Brachyura of the Pacific coast of America, Brachyrhyncha: Portunidae (No. 1). Los Angeles: Printed for the Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California.
Stephenson, W., & Rees, M. (1967). Portunid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae) collected by the ‘Discovery’ in the Indian Ocean. Journal of Natural History, 1(2), 285-288.
Stephenson, W., & Rees, M. (1968). The Endeavour and other Australian Museum collections of portunid crabs. Blight.
Stephenson, W., & Rees, M. (1967). Portunid crabs from the International Indian Ocean Expedition in the Smithsonian Collections (Crustacea: Portunidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum.
Stephenson, W., & Rees, M. A. (1968). A Revision of the Genus Ovalipes Rathbun, 1898 (CRUSTACEA, DECAPODA, PORTUNIDAE). Records of the Australian Museum, 27: 213.
Stephenson, W., & Rees, M. (1968). A revision of the Charybdis miles ‘group’ of species (Crustacea: Portunidae), with description of a new species from Queensland waters. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 15(2), 91-109.
Stephenson, W. (1968). The intertidal acorn barnacle Tetraclita vitiate Darwin at Heron Island. University of Queensland Papers. Heron Island Research Station: 1(3).
Stephenson, W., & Williams, W. T. (1968). Numerical approaches to the relationships of certain American swimming crabs (Crustacea: Portunidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum.
Campbell, B.M. and Stephenson, W. (1970). The Sublittoral brachyura (crustacea: decapoda) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 15(4): 235-301.
Stephenson, W., & Cook, S. (1970). New records of portunids from southern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 15 (4), 331-334.
Stephenson, W. (1970). Places for living: an environmental approach to ecology. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
Stephenson, W. (1972). The ecological development of man. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
Stephenson, W. (1972). Portunid crabs from the Indo-West-Pacific and Western America in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (Decapoda, Brachyura, Portunidae). Steenstrupia, 2, 127-156.
Stephenson, W. (1972). Zoology. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
Williams, W.T. and Stephenson, W. (1973). The analysis of three-dimensional data (sites x species x times) in marine ecology. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 11(3): 207-227.
Stephenson, W., Williams, W.T. and Cook, S.D. (1974). The Benthic fauna of soft bottoms, southern Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 17(1): 73-123.
Clifford, H.T. and Stephenson, W. (1975). An introduction to numerical classification. New York: Academic Press.
Stephenson, W. (1975). Biological results of the snellius expedition: XXVI. The Portunidae (Decapoda-Brachyura) of the snellius expedition (Part II). Zoologische Mededelingen, 49(14), 173-206.
Stephenson, W., Raphael, Y.R. and Cook, S.D. (1976). The Macrobenthos of Bramble Bay, Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 17(3): 425-447.
Stephenson, W. (1976). Notes on Indo-West-Pacific Portunids (Decapoda, Portunidae) in the Smithsonian Institution. Crustaceana, 11-26.
