<EDITOR'S NOTE> Published online (July 10, 2018)

Starting 7 May 2018, Pan Africa News (PAN) has adopted the “Online First” service that enables submitted manuscripts to be published online at http://mahale.main.jp/PAN/online_first.html, before print publication following peer review and acceptance. Along with this change, we have adopted a new format of PDF and print version of PAN in which each paper begins at the top of a new page. The adoption of the Online First service means that the deadlines of manuscripts are virtually no longer necessary. If you wish to publish your manuscript in PAN, you should submit it anytime. It could be published online ahead of print within a month if your communication with a reviewer proceeds fast and smoothly. Appropriate numbers of pooled Online First papers are selected to be compiled into a print issue twice per year in June and December.

Finally, please note that DOI (Digital Object Identifier) of each paper is not available at the time of online first publication, because we chose the system where DOIs are assigned by Crossref to all PAN papers publishedin the course of a year only once per year in December. Thus, in the year following print publication, you can search for DOIs of published PAN papers at free DOI lookup in the Crossref website (https://www.crossref.org/guestquery/). For the detail about how to get DOI, please see the Instructions to Authors at http://mahale.main.jp/PAN/instruction.html.

We hope that you like this new service. We look forward to receiving your good research and conservation about chimpanzees and bonobos as submissions to PAN!


Kazuhiko Hosaka, on behalf of the PAN Editorial Team



A 6-year-old male, Omali (left), and a 7-year-old female, Upepo (right), playing with each other. Photo taken by Kazuhiko Hosaka on 17 August 2017 at Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania.



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