A formal rejection costs eleven days and yields not a single insight into the content.
The target journal's guidelines are four pages long and spread across four places: word limits, mandatory sections, reference style and declarations. They get worked through the evening before submission, usually by the person who wrote the text. The editor finds whatever is missed, and the process starts again.
34requirementsThat is how many individual rules a journal's author guidelines contain.
62referencesEvery single one has to be right on format, completeness and style.
11daysThat is how long a formal rejection takes before anyone even hears about it.
1personThe evening before submission, they check a text they wrote themselves.
If the 34 requirements and all 62 references are checked before submission, the problem is caught in-house and the eleven days disappear.
The numbers of requirements and references describe a typical original article checked against a specialist journal's guidelines. The eleven days are a common turnaround time, not a measured value.