Journal editors, please read your own author guides
Editors’ failures to stick to advertised time frames and formatting requirements cost authors extra effort and stress...
"In over 10 years of publishing in dozens of scientific journals, I have rarely encountered one that knows its own author guide as well as I do.
I care because I diligently prepare my research, and every little snag delays its publication and requires extra effort from me. But this is more than the venting of one disgruntled author. Aggregated over millions of researchers, those snags have real costs in money, time and stress. And they are all avoidable..."