General ⇒ Formatting table label

[noematic.logos]

Hi everyone,

my first post, so it will be silly I'm sure!

Ok the situation is this. Currently, in the standard install of latex, in the booktabs & ctable packages, when a table is inserted it is labeled in the following format.

Table 1: Table title here

According to APA format guidelines, table labels need to be formatted like:

Table 1
Table title here

Is it possible to replace the colon with a carriage return? And given that I'm using the ctable & booktabs packages, where and how would be the best way to make this change global to my file??

Thanks!!!

[gmedina]

Use the caption package. Refer to its excellent documentation.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

additionally perhaps the apa class is useful for you if you need more of apa style than just the caption.

Stefan

[noematic.logos]

OK,

thank you both! I found and used the following to achieve my goal:

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\begin{table}[h]
\captionsetup{labelsep=newline,singlelinecheck=false}
\caption{Example table title}

\begin{tabular}[t]{llr}
\toprule
\multicolumn{2}{c}{item} \\
\cmidrule(r){1-2}
Animal & Description & Price (\$) \\
\midrule
Gnat & per gram & 13.65 \\
	& each	   & 0.01 \\
Gnu  & stuffed      & 92.50 \\
Emu & stuffed      & 33.33 \\
Armadillo & frozen & 8.99 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\label{tab:exp1_descriptives}

\end{table}