Reading a paper where authors have labels (red circles) in a figure and they are able to use it in the figure reference in the text as well. Thought this was pretty
LyX | LGT (3/5) — Figures and Tables
Cleveref, a clever way to reference in LaTeX – texblog
Images, Figures and Tables - Referencing style - IEEE - Guides at University of Western Australia
Figures, Subfigures and Tables - Overleaf, Online LaTeX Editor