Books
- (with Stephen Hawking):
- (with David Dewar): Low Income Housing Policy in South Africa, Urban Problems Research Unit, UCT, 1979.
- (with Ruth Williams): Flat and Curved Space Times, Oxford University Press, 1988, revised 2000.
- Before the Beginning: Cosmology Explained, Bowerdean/Marion Boyars, 1993.
- (with A. Lanza and J. Miller): The Renaissance of General Relativity and Cosmology. University Press, Cambridge 1993; paperback, 2005.
- Science Research Policy in South Africa, Royal Society of South Africa, 1994.
- (with Nancey Murphy): On The Moral Nature of the universe: Cosmology, Theology, and Ethics. Fortress Press, 1996.
- (with John Wainwright, Eds.):
- (with Peter Coles): Is The Universe Open or Closed? The Density of Matter in the Universe. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- (Ed.): The Far Future Universe, Templeton Foundation Press, 2002.
- Science in Faith and Hope: an interaction, Quaker Books, 2004.
Papers
Ellis has over 500 published articles including 17 in Nature. Notable papers include:
- "Cosmological perturbations and the physical meaning of gauge-invariant variables" (with Marco Bruni, Peter K. S. Dunsby) The Astrophysical Journal, volume 395 (1992)
- " Schwarzschild black hole lensing" (with K. S. Virbhadra) [Phys. Rev. D 62084003, (2000)]
- " arXiv:gr-qc/9812046v5 Cosmological models" (Cargèse Lectures 1998) (with Henk van Elst)
- "The case for an open Universe" in Nature 370, 609—615 (25 August 1994)
- " Physics, complexity and causality" in Nature 435, p.743 (9 June 2005)
- " Gravitational lensing by naked singularities" (with K. S. Virbhadra) [Phys. Rev. D 65, 103004 (2002)]