Changing figure captions into italic

Question

Is it possible to change text in figure captions to italic. So this is what I want to get:

I tried with this code:

\usepackage[format=plain,labelfont=bf,up,textfont=it,up]{caption}

but word Figure is just bold not italic.

Answer 1

You have a mess in definition of caption ... try something like

\usepackage[format=plain,
            labelfont={bf,it},
            textfont=it]{caption}

which gives label Figure in boldface italic text or

\usepackage[format=plain,
            labelfont=it,
            textfont=it]{caption}

if you like to have Figure only in italic shape. The latter case can be shortly written as:

\usepackage[format=plain,
            font=it]{caption}