Subcaption works perfectly for that. You can skip the subfigure caption - "The gull" etc in this picture https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latex_example_

Subcaption works perfectly for that. You can skip the subfigure caption - "The gull" etc in this picture https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latex_example_subfig.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latex_example_subfig... You can reference either the whole figure by using the label inside the figure environment, or you can reference the subfigures using labels inside the subfigure environments.