text alignment in caption of table

Question

I am trying make a caption at the bottom of the table but I want the text to continue under the Table number. Instead i get this:

and this is my code. Thank you!

\begin{table}
\centering
 \begin{threeparttable}
 \begin{tabular}{lllll}
    \toprule

\multicolumn{1}{l}{}    ($\delta_i,c_i$)          & \textbf{low} $\boldsymbol{c_i}$} & \textbf{high} $\boldsymbol{c_i}$}                      \ \midrule
\multirow{4}{}{\textbf{high} $\boldsymbol{\delta_i}$}} & EU (13.8,54.8)              & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\multirow{4}{}{-}} \
                                        & India (11.7, 65.8)           & \multicolumn{1}{c}{}                   \
                                        & China (11.0, 18.8)           & \multicolumn{1}{c}{}                   \
                                        & US (10.6, 32.9)              & \multicolumn{1}{c}{}                   \ \midrule
\multirow{3}{*}{\textbf{low} $\boldsymbol{\delta_i}$}}  & Russia (3.5, 93.9)         & Japan (2.4, 219.2 )                            \
                                        & Brazil (2.9, 34.6)         & Canada (1.0, 328.8)                         \
                                        &                  & S. Africa (0.7, 328.8)                        \ 
                                       % \cmidrule(l){2-3}

                                       \bottomrule
     \end{tabular}
    \begin{tablenotes}
      \small
      \item Source: \citet{holtsmark2020}, based on estimates from \citet{nordhaus2015climate} and Mclkinsey (2009).  \
 \caption{ A high $\delta_i$ implies high marginal damages from emissions while a high $c_i$ implies high marginal abatement costs (for any given level of abatement) and for our model specification $c_i=1/\phi_i$.}
   \end{tablenotes}

\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

Welcome to TeX.SX! Please expand your sample code to a complete document, starting with \documentclass and ending with \end{document}. The way how the caption is formatted depends on the document class and the packages in the preamble. — gernot, Nov 13 '20 at 16:17
Also check whether other postings here solve your problem, like https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3176/how-can-i-left-align-a-caption or https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/136688/how-to-align-caption-with-table/136689 — gernot, Nov 13 '20 at 16:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 13 '20 at 19:04

Not sure I understood perfectly what you want, but is it something like this?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\captionsetup{labelfont = {bf, sf}, indention=1cm}
 \begin{threeparttable}
     \begin{tabular}{lll}
        \toprule
\multicolumn{1}{l}{} ($\delta_i,c_i$) & \textbf{low} $\boldsymbol{c_i}$ & \textbf{high} $\boldsymbol{c_i}$ \ \midrule
\multirow{4}{}{\textbf{high} $\boldsymbol{\delta_i}$} & EU (13.8,54.8) & \multicolumn{1}{l}{\multirow{4}{}{---}} \
                                        & India (11.7, 65.8) & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} \
                                        & China (11.0, 18.8) & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} \
                                        & US (10.6, 32.9) & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} \ \midrule
\multirow{3}{*}{\textbf{low} $\boldsymbol{\delta_i}$} & Russia (3.5, 93.9) & Japan (2.4, 219.2 ) \
                                        & Brazil (2.9, 34.6) & Canada (1.0, 328.8) \
                                        & & S. Africa (0.7, 328.8) \
                                       % \cmidrule(l){2-3}
                                       \bottomrule
     \end{tabular}
    \begin{tablenotes}[flushleft, online]
      \small
      \item[Source:] Holtsmark and Weitzman (2020), based on estimates from Nordhaus(2015) and Mclkinsey (2009).
      \end{tablenotes}
 \caption{ A high $\delta_i$ implies high marginal damages from emissions while a high $c_i$ implies high marginal abatement costs (for any given level of abatement) and for our model specification $c_i=1/\phi_i$.}
  \end{threeparttable}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Zarko · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-13T20:16:58.387

I also not sure, how you like to have formated captions. For example as:

In this case your MWE, using threeparttablex and clean-up all not needed multicolumns can be:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{booktabs, multirow}
\usepackage[referable]{threeparttablex}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup[table]{font=small, labelfont = {bf, sf}, 
              singlelinecheck=false}
\begin{document}
    \begin{table}
    \centering
 \begin{threeparttable}
     \begin{tabular}{lll}
        \toprule
($\delta_i,c_i$) & \textbf{low} $\boldsymbol{c_i}$ & \textbf{high} $\boldsymbol{c_i}$ \ 
        \midrule
\multirow{4}{}{\textbf{high} $\boldsymbol{\delta_i}$} 
    & EU (13.8,54.8)        &  \multirow{4}{}{---}     \
    & India (11.7, 65.8)    &                           \
    & China (11.0, 18.8)    &                           \
    & US (10.6, 32.9)       &                           \
        \midrule
\multirow{3}{*}{\textbf{low} $\boldsymbol{\delta_i}$} 
    & Russia (3.5, 93.9)    & Japan (2.4, 219.2 )       \
    & Brazil (2.9, 34.6)    & Canada (1.0, 328.8)       \
    &                       & S. Africa (0.7, 328.8)    \
        \bottomrule
     \end{tabular}
    \begin{tablenotes}[flushleft, online]\footnotesize
    \source{Holtsmark and Weitzman (2020), based on estimates from Nordhaus(2015) and Mclkinsey (2009).}
      \end{tablenotes}
 \caption{ A high $\delta_i$ implies high marginal damages from emissions while a high $c_i$ implies high marginal abatement costs (for any given level of abatement) and for our model specification $c_i=1/\phi_i$.}
 \end{threeparttable}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

Thank you, this is what i wanted to do with the caption, i think i just had to change the document class to article and then it worked. thanks for the help! — maria arvaniti, Nov 15 '20 at 20:59

text alignment in caption of table

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