For formatting and many style matters, refer to your chosen style guide. Here is some additional information, specific to writing in anthropology, that talks about the types of academic writing that are common in our discipline and how to make it as effective as possible:
The essential guide to conscious language.
a resource to help journalists and other media professionals cover a complex, multicultural world with accuracy, authority and sensitivity. The guide includes terms and phrases related to race/ethnicity; religion; sexual orientation; gender identity; age and generation; drugs and alcohol; and physical, mental and cognitive disabilities.
Barber, Katherine. Canadian Oxford Dictionary. 2nd edition. Don Mills, Ont. ;: Oxford University Press, 2004. This is the official spelling authority for the University of Victoria.