[Tex/LaTex] Using subfig package with bmcart class breaks caption formatting

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I am writing a paper for a journal and have to use the bmcart class of the BioMed Central template found here (direct link to ZIP file).

I use subfigures, but as soon as I load the subfig package, all figure and subfigure captions become misformatted, i.e., they are shown in a different font and they overflow the bounding box that this template draws around every figure. As a minimal example, it suffices to load the subfig package in the file bmc_article.tex provided as template.

My question: how do I insert subfigures without breaking the formatting?

Best Answer

I tried the sample article and found that loading subfig with the proper option works:

\usepackage[caption=false]{subfig}

Adding this to the sample file

\begin{figure}[h!]
  \subfloat{X}\quad\subfloat{Y}
  \caption{\csentence{Sample figure title.}
      Figure legend text.}
 \end{figure}

gives the following result:

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