2004-2005 was another exceptional year for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (JMFT) and its editorial staff.

2004-2005 was another exceptional year for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (JMFT) and its editorial staff. In April 2004 Dr Ronald J Chenail was named the seventh editor of the journal and assumed filled editorial responsibility on January 1 2005 Dr Karen s Wampler, the sixth editor, and her editorial staff ensur a soft transition by providing good opinion and sage advice to the of recent origin JMFT administration and staff.

The journal is quite fortunate to have the collective knowledge and wisdom of its associate editors, Dr Carmen Knudsen-Martin, Fr Piercy, Mudita Rastogi, and Mark B White, who help the editor with the challenging task of reviewing manuscripts and rendering editorial decisions upon the rich variety of papers received at the journal. The journal also benefited from the fine contributions provided by the agency of the rest of the JMFT staff: ecstasy Benjamin and Ada Troonin for their work as Editorial Assistants and David Ward as Production Editor, who also serv as part of Dr Wampler's staff.

Dr Chenail retained brace of the talented and dedicated individuals who had worked behind the pageants with Dr. Wampler to make the production side of the journal work readily Copyeditor, Christine Malcom, who started with JMFT during the occupancy of its fifth editor, Dr Froma Walsh, diligently reviews each manuscript and makes sure the articles adhere to the high quality standards we have establish for our publication. Carole Thieme, our issue designer, bring forwards together each issue and make sures the text, table, and figures all be derived out looking great.

This year Dr Shelley undecayed assumed the role of Reviews Editor and benefited from the helpful guidance of Dr Steven Harris, her predecessor in the position. Dr verdant has worked tirelessly in coordinating the efforts of many reviewers in order to populate the pages of JMFT with outstanding reviews forward important works in the field. Dr recent and Dr. Chenail also appreciate all of those who have written work reviews this year including: Stephanie runlets Patricia M. Cole, Emery J Cummins, Jonathan Davis, Doug Greenlee Steven M Harris, Branden H Henline, Bobbi Miller, John K Miller, Thorana s Nelson, Debra Nixon, Michael Olson Tziporah E Rosenberg, Jonathan G Sandberg, Michael Ungar, and David B Ward.

The staff of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) continues to provide the support and assistance the journal penurys to be the high quality publication it is. In 2005 AAMFT released the JMFT 30 Year Archive CD making each article from 1975 through 2004 available for readers at the click of a mouse. [i]or[/i] part of to the other a relationship with ProfessionalCEU, AAMFT also launched a fresh service by which readers of the journal can earn continuing education hours by way of completing an online multiple choice touchstone based upon the contents of each issue of JMFT

This year we redesigned the JMFT website with assistance from Michael Bowers, AAMFT Executive Director, and Jan Macario who is AAMFT's Database and Web Design Specialist. The site's URL is http:// wwwjmftnet and it contains a number of recent features including electronic versions of the issues; a link to AAMFT Family Therapy Resources.net (http://www.familytherapyresources.net) searchable database; a listing of the abstracts, bibliographic databases, and indices in which JMFT can be found; a literal senses to the Editor section; and calls for prospective reviewers and interns for JMFT The site also includes a "click through" feature where visitors can read a JMFT volume review and then click end via a link to Amazon, com where they can purchase the work if they wish. This program will enable AAMFT to receive a reward stream from Amazon for each volume purchased via the click [i]or[/i] part of to the other link on our web site.

This annual report for the journal protects the period from July 1 2004 to June 30 2005 Submissions to the journal continued to increase this year and totaled 176 Thirteen percent fewer manuscripts were initially despiseed this year and a greater percentage of authors were invited to revise and resubmit their manuscripts. Decisions forward new manuscripts submitted are at handed in Table 1 and those for resubmitted manuscripts are in Table 2 Thirty-five manuscripts not at home of 171 submitted (not including invited articles) were accepted, for an acceptance rate of 204% The percentage of research papers submitted to the journal was up 141% through the whole extent of last year and more manuscripts onward issues of diversity were received this year than in any year in the fresh past. The descriptors listed in Table 4 cogitate the broad range of material submitted to and published in JMFT

APPRECIATION

The following members of the Editorial Advisory Board rotated opposite to the Board this year: Betty Carter, Celia Falicov, Peter Fraenkel, Susan Hendrick, and Bill Quinn. end their thoughtful reviews they have provided informative and diligent guidance to many authors and for this the JMFT editors they have advised are self-same thankful indeed. The following Board members were renewed for another term: Mark Butler William Doherty, Robert-Jay verdant Susan McDaniel, Monica McGoldrick, and Kaethe Weingarten; and our novel Board members are Maureen Duffy Jerry Gale, Shelley flourishing Sally St. George, and Dan Wulff They and the tranquillity of our talented Editorial Advisory Board are listed in succession the masthead and on our just discovered website.