Editorial

The 1981 volumes of the International Journal and Review of Psycho-Analysis will feature at least three innovations. Firstly, we wish to thank Harold P. Blum, M.D., Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, for his initiative and labour in bringing into being a uniform bibliographical style for use in the English language psychoanalytical journals including the Journal of The American Psychoanalytic Association, the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and the Annual of Psychoanalysis, together with our two journals—the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and the International Review of Psycho-Analysis.

It is hoped that our adoption of this uniform bibliographical format will enhance future research and educational use by our readers, will facilitate scholarly cross-referencing of psychoanalytical journals in the English language and will simplify the compilation of reference lists by authors preparing papers for publication. This landmark agreement was made possible by the co-operative efforts of the Editors of the respective journals. It is incorporated in the re-written 'Notes for Contributors' at the end of this issue.

The second innovation is an extension of our experiment, launched in 1979, in publishing summaries of papers in the four official languages of the International Psycho-Analytical Association. In 1977, the Publications Committee of the I.P.A. initiated a scheme known as the 'Pool of Papers', by which the Editor of each psychoanalytical journal was invited to send in summaries of what he considered were the three most interesting papers published each year in his journals. This was to facilitate psychoanalytical communication by enabling journals to republish in translation or otherwise either whole papers or summaries of papers from the 'Pool of Papers'.

With the agreement of the Editors of the psychoanalytical journals, we propose to republish gradually in the International Review all the '