# Tables and figures In many fields of linguistics (e.g. sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, experimental linguistics), results are often presented in tables and figures. They are numbered consecutively and given a caption under the table/figure. Your caption should be descriptive, and is generally presented in a smaller font size than the main text and centred. Figures should have readable text and clearly labelled x and y axes. Use numbering to refer to tables and figures in the body of your essay (e.g. ‘As shown in Figure 1 below, ...’; ‘Table 1 summarises the results of the survey.’). The first reference to a figure or table should occur near where the table or figure is placed in text. If you’ve reproduced the table from an existing study, you need to mention the source, as shown in the example below. ![Figure 1. Overall distribution of quotatives across age in Toronto (2002–2003) (source: Tagliamonte 2009: 85)](/files/41MKsc0Yx8EzY3Ad5Lpt) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://lead-ncl.gitbook.io/language-and-linguistics-style-guide/style-and-presentation/tables-and-figures.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.