LaTeX forum ⇒ TeXworks ⇒ How to refer my figure?

[yaozhao]

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\section{Research Hypothesis}
\begin{figure}[h] 
\centering 
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{"box-image"}
\caption{Main effect}
\label{Figure 1}
\end{figure} 
 
Like \ref{image-myimage} showed,

The outcome is "Like 1 figure showed". My idea is to show up "Like Figure 1 showed". I don't know where does 1 come from.

Many thanks in advance!

[Johannes_B]

You always reference the label, in your case this is Figure 1. That is a very bad label. A better label would be mainEffectBoxImage, which would result in

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Like Figure~\ref{mainEffectBoxImage} shows, ...

Package autoref can be helpful here as well.

[yaozhao]

Thanks! What does ~ mean? A space between words?

[Johannes_B]

The tilde in LaTeX is an unbreakable space. That means, the word figure and the final number stick together.

Reason: There is a chance that the word figure is at the end of a line and the number printed on the start of the next. This would disrupt the flow of reading. To prevent that, use the tilde so they stick together.