General ⇒ Error: References point to sections instead of figures

[spiderman2]

When I try to make a reference to a figure or table with the \ref command, the output is just the number of the section that the figure or table is aligned under. Anyone knows how to correct this?

I've been using latex for the latest months, and this problem hasn't occurred until just recently. At first I thought it might be because of some new packages I've loaded in a document, but it happens to old .tex files as well in which I don't use those packages, so it seems to be some kind of system setting behind all this. I'm using the texlive installation on Ubuntu Linux.

Thankful for help,
Henrik

[localghost]

When I try to make a reference to a figure or table with the \ref command, the output is just the number of the section that the figure or table is aligned under. Anyone knows how to correct this? [...]

Presumably you used the \label command before \caption. This can't work because the anchor for references is always set to the last command which creates one (mostly structuring commands like \chapter). If not, provide a complete and compilable code example.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[spiderman2]

That seems to be the solution! Thanks!

[Gecko17k]

Turns out that centering destroys the figure referencing. So with that it doesn't help to put the label after the caption.

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\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=90mm,height=90mm]{somefigure.jpg}
\caption{\footnotesize{Caption text here. \cite{somepaper}}}
\end{center}
\label{afigure}
\end{figure}