[Tex/LaTex] centering caption of a figure

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I want to put the caption of my figure in the center but I can't do that. when I put my figure in the center the caption is also in the center but when the caption is too long and there is a return to a newline it is not in the center

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Use the caption package and its justification=centering option.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[justification=centering]{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\rule{1cm}{1cm}
\caption{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut
    purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis.
    Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget,
    consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque.}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

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Use the caption package.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[justification=centering]{caption}% or e.g. [format=hang]

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\rule{1cm}{1cm}
\caption{This caption is very long---in fact, it is so long that it doesn't fit on one line}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] How to put the url centered under the caption of a figure

If the source information must not follow possible modifications made beforehand to the caption layout, I agree with Peter Grill's solution; however, I'd like to propose an alternative solution using the caption* command from the caption package; with this approach, the additional (unnumbered, unlisted) caption will also be sensible to modifications made to the caption layout.

Consider the following example: the first image shows that the source doesn't obey the 7cm width declared for captions; in the second image (using \caption*), the source will obey the 7cm modification:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{url}

\captionsetup[figure]{width=7cm}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=70mm]{figure3}
  \caption{TITLE OF IMAGE}
  \small source by:\url{www.aly-abbara.com/livre_gyn_obs/images/testosterone_DHT.html}
  \label{figure3} 
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=70mm]{figure3}
  \caption{TITLE OF IMAGE}
   \caption*{\small source by:\url{www.aly-abbara.com/livre_gyn_obs/images/testosterone_DHT.html}}
  \label{figure4}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

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