Baxter conceived the idea for and was editor-in-chief of the book series Stochastic Modeling, published by Chapman and Hall from 1993. He was an editorial board member for Applied Probability Newsletter, Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications, Naval Research Logistics and the International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management.In memoriam. Laurence Alan Baxter. Naval Research Logistics, vol. 44 (1998), no. 4, pp. v–viObituary: Laurence Alan Baxter (1954–1996). The Institute of Mathematical Statistics Bulletin, vol. 26 (1997), no. 2, pp. 87–88.
