4.3 Brackets

Round brackets

Will be used:

•For identifiers (for example, an acronym).

•For an explanation or translation inserted by the editor/ author within the text.

•If the bracket occurs at the end of a sentence, the full stop will be placed outside the bracket.

○Examples

>VidyaVanam is entirely free for Adivasis (who make up over half the student body) and Dalits. The rest pay Rs.200 a month.

>The students just call her paati (grandmother). A sign on the wall of her house in the campus says simply: paativeedu (grandma’s house).

Square brackets

Use them:

•Around a portion of a direct quotation that was reworded or paraphrased by the editor/author.

•When identifiers/explanation/translation are being used by the author/editor within a quote.

•When a bracket is being used within a bracket.

Note: if the square bracket occurs at the end of a sentence, the full stop is placed outside the bracket.

○Examples

>“We had taken a vow. Any kind of cooperation with the war [World War II], in money or in person, was a betrayal.

>"There were around 100 Kulta [cultivator caste] families. About 80 Odiya [also cultivators].”