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17 Behav. Sci. & L. i (1999)

handle is hein.journals/bsclw17 and id is 1 raw text is: Behavioral Sciences and the Law Behav. Sci. Law 17: i-ii (1999) Editorial: New Directions for Behavioral Sciences and the Law Charles Ewing, Alan Felthous, and I are pleased to announce some new directions for the journal beginning in 1999. The new directions represent an expansion of what BS&L has to offer its readership. The first change has to do with numbers. Volume 17 will include five issues, one more than we have offered in the past. This change is due to the increased number and quality of submissions we have had in the past two years. We now have enough publishable submissions so that the increase is not only warranted, it is desirable. The extra issue will be a Current Perspectives on Behavioral Sciences and the Law and it will contain Research Reports, Special Perspectives, and other kinds of articles (see below) that address up-to-date data and views on law and behavioral science topics. The increased number of issues also will allow us to be quicker in getting Research Reports, Special Perspectives, and other articles into print than we sometimes have been able to in the past. The second change has to do with the journal's aims and scopes. Although we still will specialize in the interface between mental health and law and publish manuscripts on virtually any topic in the broad, behavioral science and law area, we want to expand our coverage so that it regularly includes more than US and Canadian perspectives. We are making concerted efforts to solicit and pub- lish manuscripts from authors outside of the US and Canada. We have appointed four international editors who will have the responsibility of soliciting and pro- cessing manuscripts from various regions throughout the world. The international editors are: Professor David Carson, Faculty of Law, University of Southampton, ENGLAND; Dr Ian Freckelton, Faculty of Law, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; Dr Kwang-bai Park, Department of Psychology, Choongbuk National University, Chungju City, SOUTH KOREA; and Dr Henning Sass, Department of Psychiatry, University of Aachen, GERMANY. Their contact information is now listed on the inside cover of the journal. Moreover, we will devote one of our special issues each year to International Perspectives related to a special topic. The theme of this year's international issue is Therapeutic Jurisprudence. I am co-editing the international issue with Professor Carson. The theme for the international issue in 2000 will be Psychopathic Disorders. Dr Felthous will be co-editing the issue with Dr Sass. We will address differences in style across regions and countries by changing our style requirements. Until now, BS&L has required adherence to the latest version of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association or the newest edition of a Uniform System of Citation (the infamous Blue Book of legal publications in the US). Beginning immediately, we encourage authors to use APA or Blue Book/Law Review styles but announce we are willing to accept manuscripts using any professional publication style in which the author is used to writing Copyright ( 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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