| * | Rudyard Kipling's Verse Definitive Edition 1940 |
| [?] | Kipling source not identified |
| A&R | Actions and Reactions |
| AF | Abaft the Funnel |
| BMI | Beast and Man in India |
| B-RB | Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses |
| B-RB1 | Barrack-Room Ballads First Series (1892 -BRB) |
| B-RB2 | Barrack-Room Ballads Second Series (1896-SS) |
| CC | Captains Courageous |
| D&C | Debits and Credits |
| DD | Departmental Ditties |
| DofC | A Diversity of Creatures |
| DW | The Day’s Work |
| E | Echoes |
| EAB | Ellis Ames Ballard's Kipling Collection Catalogue |
| FN | The Five Nations |
| HM | Heathfield Memorial |
| HofE | A History of England (Fletcher) |
| JB | The Jungle Books |
| JSS | Just So Stories |
| Kim | Kim |
| L&R | Limits and Rewards |
| L&ST | Land and Sea Tales |
| LH | Life’s Handicap |
| LtF | The Light that Failed |
| LttF | Letters to the Family |
| MI | Many Inventions |
| MWBK | The Man who would be King |
| N | The Naulahka |
| not K | words not by, but quoted by, inspired by, parody of, corruption of, similar to or mistaken for, Kipling |
| PoPH | Puck of Pook’s Hill |
| PTftH | Plain Tales from the Hills |
| R&F | Rewards and Fairies |
| S&Co | Stalky & Co |
| SfB | Songs from Books |
| SoG | The Story of the Gadsbys |
| SoM | Something of Myself |
| SS | Seven Seas (Ballads) |
| ST | Soldiers Three |
| SW | Sea Warfare |
| T&D | Traffics and Discoveries |
| WWW | Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories |
| YB | The Years Between |