From 1986 to 1990 he edited the ancient Egyptian section of the Macmillan Dictionary of Art.

Macmillan Dictionary of Psychology.

The Macmillan Dictionary of Military Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1998.)

Jennifer S. Uglow, The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography.

After teaching at Sherborne School he worked in publishing, including a stint on the editorial team of the Macmillan Dictionary of Art.

The Macmillan Dictionary of the First World War.

The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian biography.

"Steele, Sir Samuel Benfield", in The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography (4th edition), Ed.

The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

Stuart Sutherland exemplified the difficulty in the entry he wrote for the 1989 version of the Macmillan Dictionary of Psychology: