​Zealos: Studies in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts & Design is an annual peer-reviewed and open-access journal published by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Nicosia (UNIC).

​Zealos is a fully open access journal issued annually. Each volume is published electronically as a PDF file. All papers are available on the Internet to all users immediately upon publication and free of charge, according to the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Under this license, authors agree that others can copy and distribute the article for free as long as appropriate credit is given and the article is not modified and not used for commercial purposes.

​The journal’s aim is to showcase empirical, theoretical and practice-based research work by scholars and practitioners in the humanities, social sciences, arts and design. Zealos intends to leave its mark on these fields through the publication of research papers, essays and creative work, conference and book reviews. By taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, we hope to contribute to both local and international literature and showcase some of the work conducted by academics and practitioners. The journal particularly welcomes submissions on issues related to Cyprus. Special Issues focusing on a specific theme acting as a connecting point between the various disciplines are also planned. Papers in English and Greek will be accepted. All manuscripts will be double-blind peer-reviewed by two experts in the area of the submission.

Submissions must be double-spaced and written in 12-point Times New Roman.
Research papers should be between 6000–8000 words long, essays between 4000–6000 words, and book reviews up to 3000 words. Please note that the word count includes references.
The manuscript should be in Microsoft Word format and accompanied by:

• Author’s name, title, affiliation, and email address
• An abstract of up to 300 words. For articles in Greek, an additional abstract in English should also be submitted.
• Keywords (max. 5)
• A list of figure captions and table titles.
• In-text citations and references should follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association (APA style) https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations; https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references

Figures
Figures should be in one of the following file formats: .tif, .psd, .ai, .eps. JPG files should be avoided, if possible. The recommended resolution is 300 dpi.
Each image should be saved and submitted as a separate file. Filenames should consist only of the author’s last name and an ascending number only. Images inserted into MS Word file will not be accepted as they are of very poor quality.
Authors who wish to reproduce copyrighted material are responsible for obtaining permission from the copyright holders and for clearly referencing the original source.