Latex source copied from
http://www.latextemplates.com/template/professional-table
Great, general design tips from Markus
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/markusp/teaching/guides/guide-tables.pdf
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% Professional Table
% LaTeX Template
% Version 1.0 (11/10/12)
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% This template has been downloaded from:
% http://www.LaTeXTemplates.com
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% License:
% CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/)
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% Note: to use this table in another LaTeX document, you will need to copy
% the \usepackage{booktabs} line to the new document and paste it before
% \begin{document}. The table itself can then be pasted anywhere in the new
% document.
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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs} % Allows the use of \toprule, \midrule and \bottomrule in tables for horizontal lines
\begin{document}
\begin{table} % Add the following just after the closing bracket on this line to specify a position for the table on the page: [h], [t], [b] or [p] - these mean: here, top, bottom and on a separate page, respectively
\centering % Centers the table on the page, comment out to left-justify
\begin{tabular}{l c c c c c} % The final bracket specifies the number of columns in the table along with left and right borders which are specified using vertical bars (|); each column can be left, right or center-justified using l, r or c. To specify a precise width, use p{width}, e.g. p{5cm}
\toprule % Top horizontal line
& \multicolumn{5}{c}{Growth Media} \\ % Amalgamating several columns into one cell is done using the \multicolumn command as seen on this line
\cmidrule(l){2-6} % Horizontal line spanning less than the full width of the table - you can add (r) or (l) just before the opening curly bracket to shorten the rule on the left or right side
Strain & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5\\ % Column names row
\midrule % In-table horizontal line
GDS1002 & 0.962 & 0.821 & 0.356 & 0.682 & 0.801\\ % Content row 1
NWN652 & 0.981 & 0.891 & 0.527 & 0.574 & 0.984\\ % Content row 2
PPD234 & 0.915 & 0.936 & 0.491 & 0.276 & 0.965\\ % Content row 3
JSB126 & 0.828 & 0.827 & 0.528 & 0.518 & 0.926\\ % Content row 4
JSB724 & 0.916 & 0.933 & 0.482 & 0.644 & 0.937\\ % Content row 5
\midrule % In-table horizontal line
\midrule % In-table horizontal line
Average Rate & 0.920 & 0.882 & 0.477 & 0.539 & 0.923\\ % Summary/total row
\bottomrule % Bottom horizontal line
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table caption text} % Table caption, can be commented out if no caption is required
\label{tab:template} % A label for referencing this table elsewhere, references are used in text as \ref{label}
\end{table}
A reference to Table \ref{tab:template}.
\end{document}