What are these [ ]?

Education & Reference by Anonymous 2018-05-11 11:43:55

Social Science

What are these [ ]?

3 answers

what do these mean [this] they're like brackets but I don't know why I keep seeing them in articles as they don't seem to be used inn the same way as brackets. I've tried a few google searches and cant seem to find an answer

Anonymous

Brackets without content can be used to indicate that something has been omitted from the quoted material. Hopefully something unimportant.
Anonymous

[] are usually used to indicate comments made by the editor of the work.
Anonymous

There are FOUR different kinds of parentheses, not just two. See "source', below.