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My bibliography (using natbib and a .bib file) often contains large amounts of spacing between words. I am typically generating my .bib file from a Zotero library and entries are often added via the "wizard" by entering the DOI or using the browser extension. Looking at the .bib file, it looks like ...

1. I am not sure why \textbf{} around captions has that consequence, but it was the cause of the problem.

2. Tried grouping but it didn't seem to work.

3. For completeness, here is a working example that maintains captions bolding using the caption package but fixes the issue of numbering ...

I have read many posts on here inquiring as to why \ref{} produces a section number instead of the number of a labeled figure/table. In nearly all cases, the issue is that \label{} is placed before \caption{} . However, in the example below (see "this should show figure 2"), I have placed the label ...