I do not want the image i m using to be displayed at the top of the page in latex -

i have used following code insert image need. image gets displayed @ top of page , not in area need displayed.

\begin{figure}     \centering     \includegraphics[width=.65\textwidth]{chap2/bloom}     \caption{example  figure \citet{gloeckler01b}.}     \label{fig:bloom} \end{figure} 

check out [h] flag in package float:

\usepackage{float}  ...  \begin{figure}[h] \centering \includegraphics[width=.65\textwidth]{chap2/bloom} \caption{example  figure \citet{gloeckler01b}.} \label{fig:bloom} \end{figure} 

it forces image displayed write snippet.