Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ documentclass[twocolumn]{elsarticle}, tables* figure*

[Mohamadb]

Dear all

I'm working on my master thesis (deadline mid may) and I am aiming for publishing the work in the journal of biomechanics.
My problem lies with the positioning of tables and figures in the result section. My preamble:

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\usepackage{amssymb}
%% The amsthm package provides extended theorem environments
\usepackage{amsthm} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage[final]{pdfpages}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{booktabs} 
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}
% \usepackage{tablefootnote}
\usepackage{tabularx}
% \usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{multirow}
\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{afterpage}

The table I am trying to position

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\begin{table*}
    \captionof{table}{Absolute lunge time in seconds. The values are presented in means (SD).}\label{tab:lungetime}
    \begin{threeparttable}
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{c *{5}{Y}}
    \toprule
    Variable & Non-copers (n=8) & Copers (n=8) & Controls (n=8) & P-value\\
    \midrule
    Time (s) & 1.24 (0.15) & 1.066 (0.24) & 0.98 (0.22) & 0.067 \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabularx}%
    \begin{tablenotes}
    \item Values are presented as mean(SD)
    \end{tablenotes}
  \end{threeparttable}
\end{table*}%

The table appear on the next page and the subsequent figures and tables pushed the text all the way down. Any idea how to tackle the problem.

Thanks A lot.

Best of regards
Mohamad

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Mohamad,

welcome to the forum!

table* is a table that spans over two columns. Once a column is started by TeX, space for that cannot be reserved. So it appears earliest on top of the next page.

So you need to place it earlier in the code. Or use table (without star) instead.

Stefan