EDITORIAL
Welcome to the first issue of our new journal, Infancy. Infancy is now the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS). You may have noticed the ISIS logo on the front cover of the journal. This now-familiar image of the baby holding the teddy bear was originally designed by Tiffany Field for the ISIS convention held in Austin, Texas in 1982. To highlight our association with ISIS, we have included the logo on the front cover of the journal. As a further indication of the affiliation of the journal with ISIS, this issue and subsequent issues will feature the ISIS presidential address as well as other information relating to ISIS and its biennial international convention, the International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS). For those of you interested in becoming a member of ISIS, membership information can be found either in the back of this issue or at the ISIS Web site, http://www.isisweb.org

As the new ISIS journal, Infancy is devoted to publishing the highest quality original research and theory on infant development in a wide variety of areas. We plan to publish articles on prenatal as well as postnatal development and articles on animals as well as human infants. Additionally, we define Infancy broadly and will consider research that includes older children, or even adults, as long as the topic being addressed relates in some central way to infant development.

Given the nature of our field, we expect a diversity of theoretical positions to be represented, and one of my goals as editor is to encourage constructive dialogues among those advocating these different positions. Thus, the journal will include not only the traditional formats of Research Articles (up to 10,000 words) and Brief Reports (up to 3,000 words) but also Target Articles and Thematic Collections, which are specifically meant to foster theoretical discussion. A Target Article is a major theoretical or empirical article that will be followed by a series of peer commentaries; a Thematic Collection is a group of three or four research articles from separate laboratories that examine the same topic in different ways, but converge on a common conclusion. Thematic Collections will also be followed by peer commentaries. It is my hope that, to some extent, this latter format in particular, will encourage more cooperation, even collaboration, among investigators and will lead to more reliable results that can be generalized more broadly.

Along the same lines, we are also excited by our other innovation, a Web site called Infancy Archives, which will include examples of stimulus events, sound files, color magnetic resonance images, videos of infant behavior, databases, and any other information authors may choose to provide. The Web site, at http://www.infancyarchives.com, will be maintained by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. (LEA), and will be dedicated specifically to providing supplementary information for each article that would be difficult, if not impossible, to reproduce in the journal itself. Infancy Archives is available free of charge to anyone, and individuals may download items for purposes of clarification, possible replication, or even class demonstration.

Finally, I thank the many people who have been working over this past year to make Infancy a success. First, there is LEA. The publication board of ISIS, and in particular, Esther Thelen, Rachel Clifton, and I, spent many hours considering the merits of several possible publishers. In the end, we agreed unanimously on LEA, and I am pleased to report that we made a great choice (or perhaps we just guessed right). Larry Erlbaum and his staff have been supportive in all aspects of the journal—everything from the initial publicity, to designing the cover, to producing this first issue, to maintaining the Infancy Archives Web site mentioned earlier. My associate editors, Roger Bakeman and John Richards, have provided invaluable help. Their expertise certainly broadens the scope of the journal, and their advice on all aspects of journal operation has been greatly appreciated. I also thank the journal editorial board and the guest editors. I do not think that some of them realized how often they would be called on to review manuscripts, particularly in this initial year before the first issue of the journal appeared. Finally, thanks to the many people who have already submitted articles to Infancy. Your continued support is essential for Infancy to become the premier journal on infant development.

Leslie B. Cohen
Editor