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Visuals & Appendices

Referring to Figures and Tables in Your Paper

When discussing any tables or figures in your text, always use the figure or table number. Refer to every table in the text by its number. Do not write "the figure above" or "the table below." For example:

As shown in Figure 1…

…(see Table 1).

Figure 2 depicts…