EDITORIAL NOTES

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.174-1617.2001.tb00589.x
• Author: Andrew Schepard
• Date: 01 January 2001
• Published date: 01 January 2001

EDITORIAL

NOTES

This first issue of Volume

39

in the second year

of

the new millennium is particularly

important for a number of reasons. Changes have been adopted in the format of the

Review,

the Editorial Board, the student editorial staff, and editorial policies that readers should be

aware

of.

In addition, this issue contains important substantive articles and material. My edi-

torial notes are thus a bit longer than usual. I hope that readers will bear with me.

FORMAT

CHANGES

NAME CHANGE

The

Review

has long been known as the

Family and Conciliation

Courts

Review.

This

name was in keeping with the name of its sponsoring organization, the Association

of

Family

and Conciliation Courts (AFCC). As you may know already, AFCC has changed its name

from “Association of Family and Conciliation Courts” to “AFCC, an association of family,

court and community professionals.” Dropping the word

conciliation

from AFCC’s name

required that the

Review

change its name

too.

After much deliberation and many suggestions, we have decided to change the name of

the

Review

to

Family

Court

Review.

To ensure that the interdisciplinary emphasis of the

Review

continues to be a central part of its identity, a subtitle follows the formal title-An

Interdisciplinary Journal.

The resulting name is thus as appears on the cover.

SIZE

AND COVER CHANGE

In consultation with Sage, we also decided to increase the size of the

Review

from

8

f.:

inches by

5

f/:

inches to

10

inches by

7

inches. The larger size is more in keeping with other

journals. It will enable more articles to be published, and the articles will be easier to read.

Because of the name change and the increased size, the

Review’s

cover has been rede-

signed. The previous cover design

was

generally well received. We tried to preserve as much

of it as possible in the larger format.

EDITORIAL BOARD REORGANIZATION

Up

until this year, editorial board members were appointed by the editor and served no

fixed terms. This arrangement has been reexamined in light of the ongoing reorganization of

the AFCC board.

The editorial board, Sage, AFCC, the student staff, and

I

extensively discussed how the

editorial board should be organized to balance the need

for

continuity in membership with

the need to regularly have an infusion of new expertise and energy. Sage was able to @ro-

vide us with input about how other journals organized their boards. The result was the fol-

lowing plan:

FAMILY

COURT

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