: Re: Which manual of style suggests using parentheses within parentheses? When it comes to nested parentheses, there are two options. (The first is to use square brackets for the inner text [like

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I was able to find 3 publicly available British manuals of style which mention nested parentheses.
1. British Chicago Footnotes Referencing Guide
This is a guide for referencing using footnotes, as opposed to a general style guide. However, it briefly mentions nested parentheses:

The entire source need not be put in parentheses, which involves
changing existing parentheses to brackets and creating unnecessary clutter.

This suggests that parentheses are expected to be changed to brackets when they are nested.
2. GOV.UK Style Guide
In the “Brackets” section, the following is specified:

Use (round brackets), not [square brackets]. The only acceptable use of square brackets is for explanatory notes in reported speech:

“Thank you [Foreign Minister] Mr Smith.”

Therefore, this style guide would use parentheses within parentheses.
3. European Commission English Style Guide
While this isn’t strictly a “British” style guide, I am including it since it mentions the following.

For reasons of stylistic consistency, the variety of English on which this Guide bases its instructions and advice is the standard usage of Britain and Ireland.

In the “Brackets” section, we have the following:

A second set of round brackets (not square brackets) can be used to set off text that itself contains text in brackets:

The conclusions of the analysis (in particular regarding fair trade, the
environment and transport (including green cars)) highlighted the following:

However, to avoid confusion, it may be better to use dashes (see 2.16):

The conclusions of the analysis – in particular regarding fair trade, the
environment and transport (including green cars) – highlighted the following:

Summary
I found 2 style guides that would use nested parentheses: The GOV.UK Style Guide and the European Commission English Style Guide (although the latter recommends using dashes if possible, in order to avoid confusion).

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