Cain, Stanley A.. "Ecological Islands as Natural Laboratories." In Sixth Biennial Wilderness Conference . San Francisco, CA, 1959.

Cain, Stanley A.. "Botanical Trips in Connection With the Appalachian Trail Conference." Castanea: The Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club 2, no. 8 (1947): 93-97.

Cain, Stanley A.. "Characteristics of Natural Areas and Factors in Their Development." Ecological Monographs 17, no. 2 (1947): 185-200.

Cain, Stanley A.. "A Biological Spectrum of the Flora of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." Butler University Botanical Studies 7, no. 1 (1945): 11-24.

Cain, Stanley A.. "Size-Frequency Characteristics of Abies Fraseri Pollen as Influenced by Different Methods of Preparation." American Midland Naturalist 31, no. 1 (1944): 232-236.

Cain, Stanley A., and Louise G. Cain. "Size-Frequency Study of Pinus Palustris Pollen." Ecology 25, no. 2 (1944): 229-232.

Cain, Stanley A.. "The Tertiary Character of the Cove Hardwood Forests of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 70, no. 3 (1943): 213-235.

Yard, Robert Sterling, Wendell Holmes Camp, and Stanley A. Cain. "The Great Smoky Wilderness." The Living Wilderness 7, no. 4 (1942): 7-19.

Cain, Stanley A.. "An Interesting Behavior of Yellow Birch in the Great Smoky Mountains." The Chicago Naturalist 3, no. 1 (1940): 20-21.

Jennison, Harry Milliken, and Stanley A. Cain. Botany Department Images of the Smoky Mountains, 1931-1946 In Botany Department Images of the Smoky Mountains. University of Tennessee Libraries, Special Collections , 1939.

Cain, Stanley A., and Aaron J. Sharp. "Bryophytic Unions of Certain Forest Types of the Great Smoky Mountains." American Midland Naturalist 20, no. 2 (1938): 249-301.

Cain, Stanley A.. Tertiary Elements of the Cove Hardwoods Forest of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park In Symposium on Biology of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee, Department of Botany, 1938.

Cain, Stanley A.. A Preliminary Guide to the Greenbrier-Brushy Mountain Nature Trail, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee, 1937.

Billings, W. D., Stanley A. Cain, and William B. Drew. "Winter Key to the Trees of Eastern Tennessee." The Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club 2, no. 3 (1937): 29-44.

Cain, Stanley A.. "Ecological Work on the Great Smoky Mountains Region." The Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club 1, no. 3 (1936): 25-32.

Cain, Stanley A.. "Synusiae as a Basis for Plant Sociological Field Work." The American Midland Naturalist 17, no. 3 (1936): 665-672.

Cain, Stanley A.. "Ecological Studies of the  Vegetation of the Great Smoky Mountains: II. The Quadrant Method Applied to Sampling Spruce and Fir Forest Types." The American Midland Naturalist 16, no. 4 (1935): 566-584.

Cain, Stanley A.. "Trees Grow on Stilts in Great Smoky Mountains." Science News Letter 28, no. 750 (1935): 125.

Cain, Stanley A.. The Vegetation of the Great Smoky Mountains: An Ecological Study In Department of Botany. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, 1930.

Cain, Stanley A.. "Certain Floristic Affinities of the Trees and Shrubs of the Great Smoky Mountains and Vicinity." Butler University Botanical Studies 1 (1929).