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What is the revtex standard (or commonly accepted practice) to refer to an equation/table/figure/section in an external source? (i.e. when I don't know the \label, therefore cannot use \ref). For example if I want to point the reader to a specific section, say 1.2.3, of an article that is in my bibliography, I would currently write ... in [section 1.2.3] \cite{ref9}...is it \cite[Section (1.2.3)]{ref9} as suggested below? (even though there is no \label for the section). And is it the same for equation/table/figure? Thanks

Torbjørn T.
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Ognik
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    This is very similar in nature to How to cite chapter in book? You can use \cite[Section~5]{foo}, or \cite[Equation (1.2)]{bar}... – Werner Oct 23 '15 at 00:43
  • In case you want to use labels in another file, this is a duplicate of http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3060/referencing-labels-from-other-files. – jarauh Oct 23 '15 at 00:50
  • Welcome! Can you post a small, compilable document showing what you want? Right now, people obviously aren't at all clear what you need and an example is the best way to clarify your question. – cfr Oct 23 '15 at 01:09
  • Fair enough, and I've learned a bit in since. The Reference articles are authored by other people, so I have no control over any tags within them - and therefore I now think I cannot \ref to them.

    Instead may I ask what the text standards are for pointing to a section within someone else's article? I have, for example, written:

    ...[section 9.9.9] \cite {xxx} shows a good example of .....is that acceptable practice where one can't use \ref ?

    Similarly what would the text only standards be for 'pointing' to other articles Tables, equations and figures?

     – Ognik Oct 24 '15 at 02:33
  • @user1979205 Please edit your question (instead of adding comments) and reformulate it in such a way that visitors to this site can easily understand what you want. People usually don't read all of the comments before they decide whether they can help you. See also this page: http://tex.stackexchange.com/tour – jarauh Oct 24 '15 at 14:01

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