Dear Readers,

December, 2014 was the last issue of Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine in which Online First publication was followed by an issue that provided the traditional citation metadata, including issue number and page range, for each article. All articles subsequent to the December issue will be published in a new production workflow called continuous article publishing or “CAP.” In CAP, there is no Online First publication stage when the only available means of citation is with the DOI number. CAP allows each individual article to be published with complete, definitive metadata that includes a unique article number. There is no need to wait for an issue containing the article to be built to make the definitive metadata available. Indeed, all CAP articles will begin on page one. This approach takes full advantage of online publication while eliminating the issue-dependent constraints of print. Nevertheless, monthly print issues will be available to individuals and institutions that want them.

David J. Packer

Executive Editor