Tham khảo Trưng_cầu_dân_ý_miền_Nam_Việt_Nam,_1955

  • Keesing's Research Report. South Vietnam, A Political History 1954-1970. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1970.
  • Hoàng Cơ Thụy. Việt sử khảo luận. Paris: Nam Á, 2002.
  • Brownell, William (1963). The American Mandarin: a study of the life of Diem [head of the Saigon government from 1954 through 1963] and of the origins of the American involvements. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University. 
  • Chapman, Jessica (tháng 9 năm 2006). “Staging Democracy: South Vietnam's 1955 Referendum to Depose Bao Dai”. Diplomatic History 30 (4): 671–703. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2006.00573.x.  Chú thích sử dụng tham số |month= bị phản đối (trợ giúp)
  • Jacobs, Seth (2006). Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-4447-8
  • Karnow, Stanley (1997). Vietnam: A history. New York City, New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-670-84218-4
  • Miller, Edward (2004). Grand Designs, Vision, Power and Nation Building in America's Alliance with Ngo Dinh Diem, 1954–1960. UMI. 
  • Moyar, Mark (2006). Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. New York City, New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521869110
  • Roberts, Priscilla (ed) (2006). Behind the bamboo curtain: China, Vietnam, and the world beyond Asia. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-5502-7