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I have a figure with a caption and it doesn't seem to center properly. It seems to left justify the figure:
\begin{figure}
{\centering\includegraphics[width=.9\textwidth]{figures/afigure}}
\protect\caption{Some Title\label{fig:some_label}}
\vspace{.3cm}
\footnotesize
A really nice description of the plot that you see above. It talks about all the interesting aspects of this plot.
\normalsize
\end{figure}
You have two choices:
Remove the pair of curly braces that enclose the \centering and \includegraphics statements.
If you want to keep the pair of curly braces, insert \par just ahead of the closing curly brace, }.
\par statement just before the closing curly brace.
\centering is applied at the end of what TeX considers to be "currently active paragraph". In your code, though, there's no paragraph break inside the group that contains the \includegraphics statement; hence, the \centering instruction ends up having no effect. To get the desired centering, either insert an explicit \par instruction inside the TeX group, or just omit the curly braces.
\protectlooks very odd there (it never does anything useful if it is not in the argument of some other command that needs it (a "moving argument")