IEEETran has the following style for table caption:
Table <number>
<caption>
But I would like to have it, without a line-break, as:
Table <number>. <caption>
This would also be consistent with the caption style for figures. Is it possible?
[Tex/LaTex] Avoiding newline after “Table” in caption while using IEEETran
captionsieeetran
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I have mentioned it a few times before but IEEE does not directly use your .tex file. It's there to supply the bare minimal so if it looks like an article it's enough. It doesn't have to be following the standards internally.
They will recode your article with their own terrible terrible workflow, rasterize your images and ruin your math after acceptance. I've been using the following for a couple of years without any issues. It uses subcaption and does a superb job even though it has a command clash due to the redefinitions.
\documentclass[final]{ieeetran}
\usepackage{tikz,lipsum}
\usepackage[labelformat=simple]{subcaption}
% Training subcaption package to comply with
% IEEE standards. We can ignore the warning
% generated by caption.sty which is due to
% the redefinition of \@makecaption
\DeclareCaptionLabelSeparator{periodspace}{.\quad}
\captionsetup{font=footnotesize,labelsep=periodspace,singlelinecheck=false}
\captionsetup[sub]{font=footnotesize,singlelinecheck=true}
\renewcommand\thesubfigure{(\alph{subfigure})}
\title{My title}
\author{my author}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
\lipsum*[1]
\end{abstract}
\lipsum[2-5]
\begin{figure}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{.6\linewidth}
\centering%
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[help lines] (-1,-1) grid (1,2);
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption{A caption}
\label{fig:a}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}[b]{.4\linewidth}
\centering%
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[help lines] (-1,-1) grid (1,2);
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption{B cap}
\label{fig:b}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{Two figures.}\label{fig:1}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
If you only want the caption labels leave the sub \caption{} definitions empty and describe the subfigures in the main caption. If you want to remove also the (a),(b) use \phantomcaption commands as described in the manual.
Yes, there is. The caption package provides the command \DeclareCaptionLabelSeparator to define your own caption label separator.
So, declaring
\DeclareCaptionLabelSeparator{mysep}{:\quad}
and using
\captionsetup{format=hang, labelsep=mysep}
you can obtain what you want.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[justification=justified,singlelinecheck=false]{caption}
\DeclareCaptionLabelSeparator{mysep}{:\quad}
\captionsetup{format=hang, labelsep=mysep}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c}
\hline
hello \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{A table}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Best Answer
If allowed to perform such alteration to a paper's documentclass, you should use the
captionpackage to modify the table caption formatting. Try addingto your document preamble. If there is a marginal difference between other float captions and the redefinition using the
captionpackage, then you can redefine those ones as well for consistency. There are, in fact, a multitude of other caption formatting options available. Read the package documentation for more details.