: Re: Indirect reference following brackets in scientific literature I've got a bracketed reference in a scientific manuscript I'm writing, that immediately follows bracketed text like so: ...rather than

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I don't think this usage is grammatically incorrect, though it may not be best practices. But it's easily fixed. You can merge the parentheticals, like so:

..rather than visiting flowers that were in ‘same scent’ group (same
scent and different colour to the rewarding flower group. See Figure
1).

or remove the first:

..rather than visiting flowers that were in ‘same scent’ group: same
scent and different colour to the rewarding flower group. (Figure 1)

which you would do depends on whether the figure in question is more closely relates to the parenthetical or to the statement as a whole.

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