Editor's foreword.

Hellman, Judith Adler

In this issue we are very happy to present a Research Note by Robert Gay and Jon Shefter. Gay and Shefter's contribution explores a methodological problem in Latin American and Caribbean Studies that springs from the deep level of commitment to change that is characteristic of so much of the scholarship on the region. This research note represents the kind of reflection on how we do what we do that we hope to make a regular feature of the journal.

On a more technical level, readers will see that CJLACS has now gone over to an "in text" form of citation. The use of this format will permit us to publish more articles in the same space without reducing the size of the print or margins. This change also represents a response to the authors who submit their work to the journal, the vast majority of whom send us manuscripts that already follow this form.

Our next issue, #55, will focus on Argentina and we would like to invite submissions on that country--as always--from any disciplinary perspective in the humanities and social sciences, and in any of our four languages of publication.

Our recent call for submissions of photographs and artwork for future covers of the journal produced so modest a response that, for this issue, I have turned to my "personal archives" to share a photograph entitled, "Street Sweeper, Hermosillo, Mexico" by Steve Hellman. The photographer, Professor of Political Science at York University, has traveled widely in Latin America and was, in 1975, the winner of first and second place awards for black and white photography at the Pinal County Fair in Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. For future covers of CJLACS, I hope submissions from our readers will make it unnecessary for the editor to engage in personalismo of any kind!