| 2-PS | Two-Part Songs |
| A&M | Hymns Ancient and Modern |
| A&MR | Hymns Ancient & Modern Revised |
| AC | Apollo Club |
| ASB | American Song Book |
| BMFS | Boosey Modern Festival Series |
| BSSB | Boy Scout Song Book |
| BYS | Banks York Series |
| BrSSB | British Students' Song Book >1901 |
| C&SH | Church and School Hymnal |
| CCL | Cramer's Choral Library |
| CCS | Church Choir Series |
| CHB | Choral Handbook |
| CH | Church Hymnary |
| CM | Church Music (Collection of Octavo) |
| CMisc | Choral Miscellany |
| CSF | Cramer Song Folio |
| EH | English Hymnal Edns 1898, 1927, 1973 |
| HUCC | Hymnary of the United Church of Canada |
| MH-B | Methodist Hymn-Book |
| MSB | Motherland Song Book |
| NC | National Chorister |
| NUSMS | New Universal School Music Series |
| OCS | Oxford Choral Songs |
| PCB | Parish Choir Book |
| PS | Part Songs |
| PSB | Part Song Book |
| PSHB | Public School Hymn Book |
| SofP | Songs of Praise |
| SSSB | Scottish Students’ Song Book 6th edition 1897 (see BrSSB; Kipling's co-operation acknowledged in both Prefaces) |
| US | Unison Songs |
| YSB | Yale Song Book |
| W&SH | Worship and Service Hymnal 1972 |