1) I was wondering if anyone has got the reftex feature of easily
recognizing the figures and equations to insert as a ref command to work in
org-mode.

2) Also I had seen on a website that you can use the command to get
org-mode type citations. This seems to export to latex as a \ref command
with citep in the middle (eg. \ref{citep}).
(reftex-set-cite-format
    "[[citep][%l]]")
This doesn't seem to work for me but maybe I'm doing something wrong.