• James the Fourth, Norman Macdougall (2006 with two earlier editions, regarded as definitive).
• King James IV of Scotland, R.L. Mackie (1958, the most important previous biography).
• Ashley, Mike (2002). British Kings & Queens. Carroll & Graf. tr. 280–286. ISBN 0-7867-1104-3. 
• James IV in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, New York, 2004, Vol. 29, pp. 609–619

Primary Sources

• Accounts of the Comptroller, Sir Duncan Forestar, 1495–1499, Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, vol. 9 (1958), 57–81. In Latin.
• Bain, Joseph, ed., Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, 1357–1509, vol. 4, HM Register House, Edinburgh (1888)
• Flodden Papers, 1505–1517, ed. Marguerite Wood, Scottish History Society, (1933), French diplomatic correspondence (does not refer to the battle).
• Letters of James IV, 1505–1513, ed. Mackie & Spilman, Scottish History Society (1953), English summaries of international letters.
• Nield, Jonathan (1968), A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales, Ayer Publishing, ISBN 978-0-8337-2509-7