Just a quick one for Matt Butler, who in a comment on the orignal postwrote: I just looked as well, and here’s what I saw: Front page of Biology Letters web-site, http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/, as of 7:12am on Saturday 6 October 2012 So there it is, prominently displayed right on the front page: So it’s not just that false submission-to-acceptance dates are given on individual papers;