Placement of table in IEEE paper

Question

I am trying to create a table in the IEEE conference paper that I am writing. The table is after two 2 para but when I typeset, it goes in the top the colum! I cant understand why this is happening. I am writing this like below:

text.....
text...
text...

\begin{table}[!t]
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
\caption{A Simple Example Table}
\label{table_example}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c||c}
\hline
\bfseries First & \bfseries Next\\
\hline\hline
1.0 & 2.0\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

text...

But the table goes above the text! Also, there should be two lines like:

       Table 1
A SIMPLE EXAMPLE TABLE

but for my case it prints in a single line. Can anyone help please?

Answer 1

You should consider not changing any of the layout when submitting a paper. If tables should float to the top based on the conference paper class, then so-be-it.

However, you can force the floating behaviour of the table environment to stop based on the following two approaches:

1. Use the float package and the accompanying [H] float specifier.

   \usepackage{float}
   
   ...
   
   \begin{table}[H]
     \caption{A Simple Example Table}
     ...
   \end{table}
   

   If this is your choice, consider reading:

   • How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?

   • Drawbacks of the H specifier

2. Manually set a block that contains the table:

   \usepackage{capt-of}
   
   ...
   
   \noindent
   \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
     \addvspace{\floatsep}% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/36362/5764
   
     \captionof{table}{A Simple Example Table}
     ...
   
     \addvspace{\floatsep}%
   \end{minipage}