General ⇒ Need help with \listoftables and \listoffigures.

[Vertol Captain]

I have written my PhD dissertation, so now I am formatting it. The command \tableofcontents worked very well. Unfortunately, the commands \listoftables and \listoffigures did not list any of my tables or figures. How should I label my tables and figures?

[gmedina]

If you use the standard table and figure environmnets for floating objects then all you need to do is to use the \caption command. In this case, to customise your captions it is advisable to load the caption package.

Take a look at the following example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}[2008/04/01]

\begin{document}

\listoffigures
\cleardoublepage
\listoftables
\cleardoublepage

\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \fbox{Test figure 1}
  \caption{test figure 1}
  \label{fig:testfigone}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{c}
    test table 1
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{test table 1}
  \label{tab:testtabone}
\end{table}

\newpage

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{c}
    test table 2
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{test table 2}
  \label{tab:testtabtwo}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \fbox{Test figure 2}
  \caption{test figure 2}
  \label{fig:testfigtwo}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Another option is to manually create the lists of tables and figures. It depends on how are you building them.

[uetech]

Just want to point out one thing specifically which I found out yesterday, the hard way. In order for figure referencing to be correct, the figure label should come immediately after the figure caption as rightly used by gmedina, or even inside it, but not before.