General ⇒ Problem with citing figures, citations are displayed incorre

[Phanixis]

I am writing a paper using the optics letters template below:

http://www.photonics.umd.edu/umd/index.html

In it, I am citing several figures that appear within the paper, like this

\begin{figure}
...
\label{fig}
\end{figure}

Later on I cite the figure using \ref{fig}.

In the text, the citation does not appear as "figure 1", but instead appears as "1" bounded by a red box. I have been trying to correct this by searching the .sty files my document is using, but I cannot identify the cause. Does anyone know why LaTex is doing this, or how to fix it?

Thanks for the help.

[localghost]

[…] Does anyone know why LaTex is doing this, or how to fix it? […]

You always have to use a caption to create an anchor for reference.

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\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \rule{4cm{3cm}
  \caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:dummy}
\end{figure}

Note that the label always come after the caption. Now the reference to the given label should work.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Phanixis]

I didn't show it in my example, but my caption does appear before my label statement. I double checked this an it is definitely not the cause of my problem.

Also, the problem isn't that LaTex is unable to find the correct figure, its that it is not displaying the caption properly. I almost suspect that somewhere in one of the packages /ref has been redefined to bound the citation number by boxes instead of writting the word "figure" in front of the citation number.