Docter, R., Vella, N.C., Cutajar, N., Bonanno, A. & Pace, A. 2012, "Rural Malta: First Results of the Joint Belgo-Maltese Survey Project", Bulletin Antieke Beschaving, vol. 87, pp. 107-149.
De Wulf, A., Docter, R., Stal, C., Goossens, R., Nuttens, T. & Vella, N. 2011, "Intergrated 3D Geomatics for Archaeology: case study Malta", Proceedings of the 31st EARSel Symposium "Remote Sensing and Geoinformation not only for Scientific Cooperation", ed. L. Halounova, , 30 May-2 June, pp. 604.
Tanasi, D. & Vella, N.C. (eds) 2011, Site, artefacts, landscape: prehistoric Borg in-Nadur, Malta, Polimetrica, Monza.
Vella, N.C. 2010, "Views from the Punic countryside [review article]", Journal of Roman Archaeology, vol. 23, pp. 459-463.
Pessina, A. & Vella, N.C. 2009, "Alla ricerca delle radici mediterranee: i templi megalitici di Malta" in Relitti riletti: metamorfosi delle rovine e identita culturale, ed. M. Barbanera, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, pp. 400-415.
Vella, D., Licari, J., Vella, N.C., Sultana, S. & Ciantar, V. 2009, "Copy or authentic? Analysis of a Phoenician gold ring from the National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, Malta", ArcheoSciences - Revue d'archeometrie, vol. 33, pp. 349-355.
Vella, N.C. 2007, "Unravelling past agricultural landscapes in the Maltese Islands: making a case for the Phoenician and Punic periods" in SÃtios e paisagens rurais do Mediterrâneo púnico., eds. A.M. Arruda, C. Gómez Bellard & P. van Dommelen, Colibri and Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, pp. 69-85.
Riva, C. & Vella, N.C. (eds) 2006, Debating Orientalization: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean, Equinox, London.
Vella, N.C. & Gilkes, O. 2001, "The Lure of the Antique: Nationalism, Politics and Archaeology in British Malta (1880-1964)", Papers of the British School at Rome, vol. 69, no. Centenary Volume, pp. 353-384.