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Square brackets, often simply called brackets, are more disconnective than parentheses. They are used to enclose material too extraneous for parentheses.
Use brackets for editorial comments or additional information on material written by someone else. (To use ordinary parentheses for this purpose would give the impression that the inserted words were those of the person quoted.)
Square brackets should also enclose translations given immediately after short quotations, terms and titles of books or articles.
Parentheses within parentheses should be used sparingly, except in legal and scholarly texts and specifically for letters and numerals referring to subsections of a document:
Therefore, when one set of parentheses is to be placed within another, replace the inner parentheses with square brackets.
As an alternative, one set of parentheses may in some cases be replaced by dashes:
Square brackets may also be used in place of round brackets where two or more sets of the latter would otherwise occur in succession:
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