Smith, Richard W. P.. 2017. Loss and longing: emotional responses to West Indian soldiers during the First World War. In: Ashley Jackson, ed. The British Empire and The First World War. London: Routledge, pp. 419-428. ISBN 9781138294905
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2017. The Impact of the First World War on Pan-Africanism: The Transcendence of National and Imperial Boundaries. In: Debra Rae Cohen and Douglas Higbee, eds. Teaching Representations of the First World War. New York: Modern Language Association, pp. 85-92. ISBN 9781603293044
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2017. 'British West Indian Memories of World War One: From Militarized Citizenship to Conscientious Objection'. In: Shalini Puri and Lara Putnam, eds. Caribbean Military Encounters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 39-48. ISBN 978-1-137-58014-6
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2016. Entries for Gordon, William James; Johns, Vere; Reid, Hubert. In: Franklin W Knight and Henry Louis Gates Jr, eds. Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. OUP. ISBN 978-0199935796
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2016. Post-War Redemption in the Jamaican Literary Imagination. In: David Owen and Cristina Pividori, eds. Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, pp. 173-188. ISBN 9789004314917
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2014. Post-colonial Melancholia and the Representation of West Indian Volunteers in the British Great War Televisual Memory. In: Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, eds. The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, pp. 385-395. ISBN 9783110362909
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2014. The First World War and the Permanent West Indian Soldier. In: Richard Fogarty and Andrew Jarboe, eds. Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict. London: I.B.Tauris, pp. 303-327. ISBN 978-1780764405
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2014. Propaganda, Imperial Subjecthood and National Identity in Jamaica during the First World War. In: Troy Paddock, ed. World War I and Propaganda. Leiden: Brill, pp. 89-112. ISBN 978-9004264564
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2014. Foreword to Juliet Gilkes Romero, At the Gates of Gaza. In: Juliet Gilkes Romero, ed. At the Gates of Gaza. London: Oberon. ISBN 978-1783191734
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2013. 'The black male body in the white imagination during WW1'. In: Paul Cornish and Nicholas Saunders, eds. Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation. London: Routledge, pp. 39-52. ISBN 978-0415834223
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2012. Soldiery. In: Philippa Levine and John Marriott, eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 359-376. ISBN 978-0754664154
Smith, Richard W. P. and Haggith, Toby. 2011. "Sons of Our Empire": shifting ideas of 'race' and the cinematic representation of imperial troops in the World War I. In: Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe, eds. Empire and Film. London: British Film Institute, pp. 35-53. ISBN 978-1-844-57421-6
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2011. "Heaven grant you strength to fight the battle for your race": Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and the First World War in the Jamaican memory. In: Santanu Das, ed. Race, Empire and First World War Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 265-282. ISBN 978-0-521-50984-8
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2011. The Impact of the First World War on the Garvey Movement. In: Robert A Hill, ed. Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. XI Durham, NC: Duke University Press, cclxxv-cclxxxi. ISBN 978-0-822-34690-6
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2009. J. Edmestone Barnes, a Jamaican Apocalyptic Visionary in the Early Twentieth Century. In: Karolyn Kinane and Mike Ryan, eds. End of days: essays on the apocalypse from antiquity to modernity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, pp. 120-141. ISBN 978-0-786-44204-1
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2008. "The Black Peril": race and masculinity on the Home Front in the First World War. In: Louise Ryan and Wendy Webster, eds. Gendering Migration: Masculinity, Femininity and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 19-34. ISBN 075467178X
Smith, Richard W. P.. 2007. 'World War One', 'World War Two', 'Booker T Washington'. In: David Dabydeen and John Gilmore, eds. The Oxford Companion to Black British History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192804396