Rich Shepard <rshepard <at> appl-ecosys.com> writes: > > On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > Paul, > > > All the figures and tables are correctly numbered, and all the > > references to subfigures in the text are correct. References to the one > > pair of subtables (Table 6), however, show up as Table 5a and Table 5b > > rather than 6a and 6b. > > I come to this thread late so perhaps my comment is not appropriate or > helpful, in which case I apologize for jumping in. > > My understanding of caption placement is based on the various article, > report, and book classes I've used over the years, and from writing and reading > scientific papers in various journals. It seems to be the convention that > figure captions are below the figures (even with sub-figures) while table > captions are above the tables. Perhaps this is subject-area-specific but it > has been the pattern I've seen and followed. > > Rich >
Rich, I doubt it is discipline-specific, but it could be journal-specific. My impression is that every journal (or at least every publisher) tries to something a bit different from other journals just to bedevil authors. :-) That said, the first journal I laid my hands on does as you describe, so that may be the most common model. Then again, they didn't give subfigures separate captions, they didn't center captions, and they didn't have any subtables at all (just wide takes with apples on the left, oranges on the right), so what do they know. :-) I probably should follow their lead and turn my subtables into single tables, then refer to "left half of Table 6" and "right half of Table 6". Thanks for the insight. Paul
