How to reference to subfigure in latex

Question

I have 2 figures with same meaning, So I put them in subfigure package, to make it easy to show their similarity.

Here is the code that I used:

\usepackage{subfigure}


\begin{figure}[H]
 \centering
 \subfigure[]
 {
  \includegraphics[width=5.5cm, height=3.5cm]{Pattern_Images2/Result_Paper_17.eps}
   }
 \subfigure[]
 {
  \includegraphics[width=3.5cm, height=3.5cm]{Pattern_Images2/Result_Paper_24.eps}
   }

 \label{fig:Miss_Paper2417}
 \caption{Misclassification because of the distance (a)Paper \cite{Paper17} (b)Paper \cite{Paper24}}
\end{figure}

I call the pic by

Figure \ref{fig:Miss_Paper2417}

The picture appear correctly, but the problem is when I call them in my paragraph, The figure number and caption are not correct..

enter image description here

Im using WinEDT and bibtxtmng

Welcome to TeX.SX! Please help us to help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. — Marco Daniel, May 30 '14 at 10:08
Always place the \label after (or within) the caption. See Why does an environment's label have to appear after the caption? — Torbjørn T., May 30 '14 at 10:27
The subfigure package is considered deprecated. You should consider using either the subcaption package -- as is done in @sandu's answer -- to the subfig package. — Mico, May 31 '14 at 05:36

sandu · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-31T05:21:26.700

28

You can use subcaption and cleveref packages...

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\usepackage{cleveref}

\captionsetup[subfigure]{subrefformat=simple,labelformat=simple}
\renewcommand\thesubfigure{(\alph{subfigure})}

\setcounter{chapter}{1}

\begin{document}

  \begin{figure}[htbp!]
    \centering
      \begin{subfigure}{0.45\textwidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{image1}
          \caption{Nice image1}
          \label{fig:NiceImage1}
      \end{subfigure}
      \hfill
      \begin{subfigure}{0.45\textwidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{image1}
          \caption{Nice image 2}
          \label{fig:NiceImage2}
      \end{subfigure}
\caption{
\label{fig:NiceImage}%
Two images}
\end{figure}

Figure \ref{fig:NiceImage}

Figure \ref{fig:NiceImage} \subref{fig:NiceImage1}

\Cref{fig:NiceImage}

\Cref{fig:NiceImage1}

\end{document}

edited May 31 '14 at 05:21

answered May 30 '14 at 10:36

sandu

7,950

Note that there's an extra space at the beginning of the main caption, rearrange things or add % after \label{fig:NiceImage} to fix that. – Torbjørn T. May 30 '14 at 10:59
Modified the code based on Torbjorn comment – sandu May 31 '14 at 05:23
3

This requires switching to a package that has a different syntax. Probably a good idea but not easy with collaborators who like the old ways. Is there a quick fix solution using the subfigure package? – Marten Mar 25 '21 at 15:22

Shih-Lun Wei · Answer 2 · 2022-10-06T13:00:52.360

\begin{figure}[hbtp]{
\centering  
\subfigure[]{
    \includegraphics[width=0.26\paperwidth]{OMfigue-B09.4-1}
    \label{picture label 4.2.a} }
\centering
\subfigure[]{
    \includegraphics[width=0.26\paperwidth]{OMfigue-N02.4-1}
    \label{picture label 4.2.b} }
    \label{picture label 4.2}       }
\end{figure}

figure\ref{picture label 4.2},figure\ref{picture label 4.2.a}, and figure\ref{picture label 4.2.b}

How to reference to subfigure in latex

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