周志炎,1961. 江苏龙潭组植物群. [研究生毕业论文)]
斯行健, 周志炎1962. 中国中生代陆相地层. 北京:科学出版社. 1-180
周志炎1963. 真蕨、裸子植物和未分类的生殖器官等. 见:斯行健、李星学等(主编)中国中生代植物化石. 科学出版社
周志炎,1974. (编著者之一)见:中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所, 中国科学院植物研究所(编著)中国古生代植物化石. 北京:科学出版社. 1-277, 130图版
周志炎、曹正尧,1977. 中国东部白垩纪8种新的松柏类化石及其分类位置和演化关系. 古生物学报,16(2):165-181,5 图版
周志炎, 曹正尧,1979. 华南白垩纪几种松柏类化石及其地层意义. 古脊椎动物和古人类研究所, 南京地质古生物研究所编辑,广东南雄“华南白垩纪—早第三纪红层现场会议”论文选集. 北京:科学出版社. 218-222,3图版
周志炎, 厉宝贤,1979. 海南岛琼海县九曲江早三叠世植物的初步研究. 古生物学报,18(5),444-462,2图版
周志炎, 陈丕基, 厉宝贤, 文世宣, 黎文本, 张璐瑾, 叶美娜, 刘兆生, 李再平,杨学林, 1980. 吉林东部延边地区晚中生代陆相地层。南京地质古生物研究所丛刊,1:1-21
周志炎, 陈广雅, 伞文, 张川波, 张清波, 张武, 蒲荣干,1980. 黑龙江省鸡西、穆棱地区晚中生代地层及其植物组合基本面貌. 南京地质古生物研究所丛刊,1:56-74
陈金华, 周志炎, 潘华璋, 曹美珍, 林启彬,尚玉珂,许玉明, 1980. 湘西南中生代含煤地层及生物群. 南京地质古生物研究所丛刊,1:76-98
周志炎, 李佩娟,1980. 从古植物学观点讨论中国中生代陆相地层的划分、对比和时代. 国际交流地质学术论文集(为二十六届国际地质大会撰写),(4)地层古生物. 北京:地质出版社. 82-91
周志炎,1981. 湖南晚三叠世和早侏罗世几种种子蕨. 古生物学报,20(1),15-26,4图版
李星学, 周志炎, 郭双兴,1981. 植物界的发展和演化. 科学出版社,1-184
Zhou Zhiyan, 1983. Stalagma samara, a new Podocarpaceous conifer with monocolpate pollen from the Upper Triassic of Hunan, China. Palaeontographica, B. 185, 56-78, 12pls
Zhou Zhiyan, 1983. A heterophyllous Cheirolepidiaceous conifer from the Cretaceous of East China. Palaeontology, 26:789-811, pls. 75-80
Zhou Zhiyan, 1983. Quarternary record of Azolla pinnata in China and its sporoderm ultrastructure. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 39, 109-129, 4pls
周志炎, 1984. 湘西南早侏罗世早期植物化石. 中国古生物志,新甲种,7号,总号165,1-91,34图版
Batten, D. J., Creber, G. T., Zhou Zhiyan, 1984. Fossil Plants and other organic debris in Cretaceous sediments from deep sea drilling project Leg 80: Their paleoenvironmental significance and source potential. Initial Reports of DSDP, 80: 629-641, 7pls
李星学,叶美娜, 周志炎,1986. 论东亚中生代独特的松柏类植物——扇杉属 Rhipidiocladus Prynada. 古植物学与孢粉学文集,1(1):1-12, 3图版
周志炎, 刘秀英,1986. 西藏硬蕨 Scleropteris tibetica藏东早白垩世一种海金砂科化石. 科学通报,31(5): 369-371,1图;[Chinese Science Bulletin (Kuexue Tongbao), 32(6), 399-401,1textfig]
周志炎,1987. 电子显微镜在古植物研究中的应用. 穆西南(主编)古生物学研究的新技术和新方法. 北京:科学出版社. 1-8,2图版
Zhou Zhiyan, 1987. Elatides harrisii, sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology., 51: 189-204, 4pls
Li Xingxue, Ye Meina, Zhou Zhiyan, 1987. Late Early Cretaceous flora from Shansong, Jiaohe, Jilin Province, Northeast China. Palaeontologia Cathayana, 3: 1-53, 45pls
周志炎, 章伯乐,1988. 河南义马中侏罗世两种银杏目的雌性生殖器官. 科学通报,33(3);216-217,1图;[Chinese Science Bulletin ( Kexue Tongbao), 33(4): 1201-1203,1textfig]
Barale,G.,Zhou Zhiyan, 1988. On the presence of the genus Sinoctenis Sze in the Upper Triassic flora from North Vietnam. Revue de Paleobiologie, 7(1): 25-32, 2pls,
Zhou Zhiyan, 1989. Late Triassic plants form Shaqiao, Hengyang, Hunan Province. Palaeontologia Cathayana, 4: 131-197, 15pls
Zhou Zhiyan, Zhang Bole. 1989. A Middle Jurassic Ginkgo with ovule-bearing organs from Henan, China. Palaeontographica, B.211: 113-133, 8pls
Zhou Zhiyan, Zhang Bole. 1989. A sederitic Protocupressinoxylon with insect borings and frass from the Middle Jurassic, Henan, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 56: 133-143, 3pls
周志炎 (译),1989. C. R. 希尔, P. R. 克伦 著. 进化分支系统学和被子植物起源.南京: 南京大学出版社,1-113
姚宣丽, 周志炎, 章伯乐,1989. Sewardiodendron laxum Florin (杉科) 在河南义马中侏罗统的发现. 科学通报,34(8):603-604,1图;[Chinese Science Bulletin (Kexue Tongbao), 34(23): 1980-1982, 1textfig ]
周志炎,1990. 中生代银杏目植物的系统发育和进化趋向. 见:戎嘉余, 方宗杰, 吴同甲(主编) 理论古生物学文集。南京:南京大学出版社. 1-19
周志炎、李浩敏、曹正尧、纽伯燊,1990. 香港坪洲岛若干白垩纪植物化石. 古生物学报,1990,29(4):415-426,4图版
Zhou Zhiyan, 1991. Phylogeny and evolutionary trends of Mesozoic ginkgoaleans – a preliminary assessment. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 68: 203-216
刘裕生、周志炎、李浩敏,1991. 苏铁属植物化石在中国首次发现. 科学通报,36(22):1758-1759,1图;[Chinese Sciences Bulletin (Kexue Tongbao), 36 (22): 1758-1759, 1textfig]
周志炎,1992. 古植物整体研究和重建. 古生物学报,31(1):117-126.
Zhou Zhiyan, Zhang Bole, 1992. Baiera hallei Sze and associated ovule-bearing organs from the Middle Jurassic of Henan, China. Palaeontographica, B224: 151-169, 8pls
Zhou Zhiyan, Kirchner, M., 1992. Carbonized wood of Hirmerella from the Basal Liassic in Grossbellhofen, Nürnberg, Germany. Chinese Journal of Botany, 4(1): 56-61, 2pls
Zhou Zhiyan, 1993. Comparative ultrastructure of fossil and living ginkgoacean megaspore membranes. Review Palaeobotany and Palynology, 78: 167-182, 5pls
周志炎,1993. 进化分支(支序)系统学—一个古植物工作者的评述. 见:穆西南(主编)古生物学研究的新理论新假说. 北京:科学出版社. 1-16,4图
周志炎, 1994. 银杏型胚珠器官的异时发育起源. 古生物学报,33(2):1-9,1图版
周志炎, 李浩敏,1994. 南极乔治王岛一些晚白垩世植物化石. 见:沈炎彬主编:南极乔治王岛菲尔德斯半岛地层及古生物研究. 国家南极委员会南极研究专著三. 北京:科学出版社. 83-94,3图版
周志炎, 李浩敏,1994. 南极乔治王岛菲尔德斯半岛早第三纪真蕨类植物. 见:沈炎彬主编:南极乔治王岛菲尔德斯半岛地层及古生物研究. 国家南极委员会南极研究专著三. 北京:科学出版社. 171-187,5图版
周志炎, 李浩敏,1994. 南极乔治王岛菲尔德斯半岛早第三纪裸子植物. 见:沈炎彬主编:南极乔治王岛菲尔德斯半岛地层及古生物研究. 国家南极委员会南极研究专著三. 北京:科学出版社. 189-219,3图版
Zhou Zhiyan, Wu Yimin, 1994. Upper Gondwana plants from the Puna Formation, southern Xizang (Tibet). Palaeobotanist, 42(2): 120-125, 1pl
Zhou Zhiyan, 1995. On some Cretaceous psendofrenelopsids with a brief review of Cheirolepidiaceous conifers in China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 84: 419-438, 5pls
李星学,周志炎, 蔡重阳, 孙革, 欧阳舒, 邓龙华 (编),1995. 中国地质时期植物群. 广州:广东科技出版社。1-542,114图版;[英文版1-695, pls 82-96]
Zhou Zhiyan, Zhang Bole, 1996. A Jurassic species of Arctobaiera (Czekanowskiales) with leafy long and dwarf shoots from the Middle Jurassic Yima Formation of Henan, China. Palaeobotanist, 45:361-368, 2pls
章伯乐, 周志炎, 1996. Rhaphidopteris Barale (裸子植物) 一新种及其分类位置的探讨. 古生物学报,35(5):528-543,3图版
周志炎,1997. 历史生物地理学概念上的一次革新. 古生物学报,36(1):132-134
Zhou Zhiyan, 1997. Mesozoic ginkgoalean megafossils - a systematic review. In Hori, T. et al., (eds.) Ginkgo biloba - A Global Treasure from Biology to Medicine. Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, 183-206
Zhou Zhiyan, Zhang Bole, 1998. Tianshia patens gen. et sp. nov., a new type of leafy shoots associated with Phoenicopsis from the Middle Jurassic Yima Formation, Henan, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 102(3/4): 165-178, 4pls
Zhou Zhiyan, Guignard, G., 1998. Leaf cuticular ultrastructure of two czekanowskialeans from the Middle Jurassic Yima Formation of Henan, China, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 102(3/4): 179-187, 3pls
Yao Xuanli, Zhou Zhiyan, Zhang Bole, 1998. Reconstruction of the Jurassic conifer Sewardiodendron laxum (Taxodiaceae). American Journal of Botany, 85(4): 1289-1300, 40textfigs
Barale, G., Thévénard, F., Zhou Zhiyan, 1998. Discovery of Nilssoniopteris in the Middle Jurassic Yima Formation of Henan, Central China. Geobios, 31(1): 13-20, 2pls
周志炎, 章伯乐,2000. 论裸子植物钉羊齿属的异质性并描述华中河南侏罗纪义马组两新种. 古生物学报,39(增刊):14-25,2图版
周志炎, 张璐瑾, 陈金华,2000. 陆相三叠系. 见:中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所(编著)中国地层研究二十年(1979-1999). 安徽:中国科技大学出版社,259-282
Zhou Zhiyan, Thévénard, F, Barale, G., Guignard, G., 2000. A new xeromorphic conifer from the Cretaceous of East China, Palaeontology, 43(3): 561-572, 3pls
Thévénard, F.,Guignard, G.,Gomez, B., Zhou Zhiyan, 2000. Genre Glenrosa, example de plantes xérophytes ou accommodation physiologique? Monografias de la Academia de Ciencias, fisicas Químicas y Naturales de Zaragoza, Spain, 16:45-51
Zhou Zhiyan, Wu Xiangwu, Zhang Bole, 2000. Tharrisia, a new fossil leafy organ genus, with description of three Jurassic species from China. Palaeontographica, B 256, 95-109, 7pls
Zhou Zhiyan, Zhang Bole, Wang Yongdong, Guignard, G., 2002. A new Karkenia (Ginkgoales) from the Jurassic Yima Formation, Henan, China and its megaspore membrane ultrastructure. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynolgy, 120:91-105
周志炎, 吴向午等(主编), 2002. 中国古植物学(大化石)文献目录 (1865 - 2000).合肥: 中国科学技术大学出版社. 1-307页
周志炎, 2003. 中生代银杏类植物系统发育、分类和演化趋向. 云南植物研究, 25 (4): 377-396
Zhou Zhiyan, Zheng Shaolin, 2003. The missing link in Ginkgo evolution. Nature, 423: 821-822
Zheng Shaolin, Zhou Zhiyan, 2004. A new Mesozoic Ginkgo from western Liaoning, China and its evolutionary significance. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 131: 91-103
邓胜徽, 杨小菊, 周志炎, 2004. 辽宁铁法盆地早白垩世银杏胚珠器官的发现及其意义. 科学通报, 49(13:1334-1336;[Chinese Science Bulletin, 49(16): 1774-1776]
*Deng Shenghui, Yang Xiaoju, Zhou Zhiyan, 2004. An Early Cretaceous Ginkgo ovule-bearing organ fossil from Liaoning, Northeast China and its evolutionary implications.
Guignard, G., Zhou Zhiyan, 2005. Comparative studies of leaf cuticle ultrastructure between living and the oldest known fossil Ginkgos in China. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 166 (1): 145-156
周志炎,吴向午,2006. 早中生代银杏目的辐射和分异。见:戎嘉余(主编),方宗杰,周忠和,詹仁斌,王向东,袁训来(副主编),生物的起源、辐射与多样性演变—华夏化石记录的启示. 北京:科学出版社. 510-549,904-906
Zhou Zhiyan, Wu Xiangwu, 2006. The rise of ginkgoalean plants in the early Mesozoic: a data analysis. Geological Journal, 41:363-375.
Wu Xiangwu, Yang Xiaoju, Zhou Zhiyan, 2006. Ginkgoalean ovulate organs and seeds sociated with Baiera furcata-type leaves from the Middle Jurassic of Qinghai Province, China. Review of Palaeobtany and Palynolgy, 138:209-225
Zhou Zhiyan, Zheng Shaolin, Zhang Lijun, 2007. Morphology and age of Yimaia (Ginkgoales) from Daohugou Village, Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia, China. Cretaceous Research, 28:348-362
Wu Xiang-Wu,Zhou Zhi-Yan,WANG Yong-Dong. Nomenclatural notes on some ginkgoalean fossil plants from China. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica, 4:880-883.
周志炎,2007.中国古植物命名中若干值得重视的问题,兼述维也纳法规中的有关规定。古生物学报,4:387-393。
刘秀英、杨小菊,周志炎,2007. 西藏东部晚中生代植物。北京:地质出版社。 1-123, 24图版。
Yang, X.J., Friis, E.M., Zhou, Z.Y. 2008 Ovulate organs of Ginkgo ginkgoidea (Tralau) comb. nov., and associated leaves from the Middle Jurassic of Scania, South Sweden. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 149, 1-17.
Zhi-Yan, Zhou, 2009. An overview of fossil Ginkgoales. Palaeoworld, 19, 1-22.
Cheng Quan, Ge Sun and Zhiyan Zhou+, A new Tertiary Ginkgo (Ginkgoaceae) from the Wuyun Formation of Jiayin, Heilongjiang, northeastern China and its paleoenvironmental implications. Amer. J. Bot. 97(3):446-457.
Gongle Shi, Zhiyan Zhou+, Zhiming Xie, 2010. A nw Cephalotaxus and associated epiphyllous fungi from the Oligocane of Guangxi, South China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 161 (2010) 179–195
全成、周志炎,2010. 黑龙江渐新世银杏大化石及其古气候和植物地理意义。古生物学报,49( 4) : 439- 442.
Maher I. El-Soughier, R.C. Mehrotra, Zhi-Yan Zhou+, Gong-Le Shi,2011. Nypa fruits and seeds from the Maastrichtian–Danian sediments of Bir Abu Minqar, South Western Desert, Egypt. Palaeoworld 20 (2011) 75–83
Gongle Shi, Zhiyan Zhou+, Zhiming Xie, 2011. Cupressus foliage shoots and associated seed cones from the Oligocene Ningming Formation of Guangxi, South China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 166, 325-334
Zhiyan Zhou+, Cheng Quan, and Yu-Sheng (Christopher) Liu, 2012. Tertiary Ginkgo ovulate organs with associated leaves from North Dakota, USA and their evolutionary significance. International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 173, No. 1, pp. 67-8
Gongle Shi, Zhiyan Zhou+, Zhiming Xie, 2012. A new Calocedrus from South China and its implication for transpacific floristic exchanges. American Journal of Botany, 99(1): 1–13. 2012.
Hill, C.R., X. J. Yang, Z. Y. Zhou, J. C. Doyal, 2012. Exceptionally preserved conifer twigs of Pseudofrenelopsis from the marine Lower Cretaceous of Yorkshire, England. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 51:395-410.
Caroline Mairot, *Gaëtan Guignard, *Xiao-Ju Yang,, Zhi-Yan Zhou, 2014. Cuticle micro- and ultrastructure of Suturovagina Chow et Tsao (Cheirolepidiaceae): Taxonomic and palaeoecological implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 205, 9–21
*Batten, D. J., Zhou, Z., Li, W. 2014. Plant remains from Early Cretaceous deposits on the Goban Spur, Bay of Biscay, North Atlantic Ocean, and their palaeoenvironmental significance. Palaeoworld, 23,162–186.
*杨小菊、吴向午、周志炎,2014. 若干中国银杏目化石的命名问题。古生物学报53卷,第3期,263-273.