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Google Books can help with this. What's needed is the information that appears in a citation: the author, place, and date of publication. Luckily, traditional print materials (in the form of books) often include the kind of citation information you might need and Google Books allow you to search the full text of books.

This looks like a really easy to follow site based around citation and academic honesty.

"This is what psychologists call "metacognition," thinking about how we think. Trailblazer gave me an x-ray view of my own mental activity. Clicking on random memes triggered a curious search query and-boom-20 pages later I'd find a useful scientific paper. (I'm now more forgiving of falling down a Twitter hole.) Traditional academic citations never capture serendipity, the stumbling, associational nature of how knowledge relates to itself. Trailblazer does."

twitter, the plucky social media network with much of Facebook's reach but none of its self-adoration, received a vote of confidence from an unlikely source: the Modern Language Association. Long an indirect but potent tool of torture in English classrooms and University campuses everywhere, the MLA (and other cohorts, including APA and Chicago) released a format for quoting tweets in formal writing.

A flowchart for deciding if I can use an image on my website - very well done. via @milesbeasley

How to cite a Tweet

aimed at university students, but still great for secondary  -- acts out Dickens' Christmas Carol as showing what will happen if you plagiarize

QuickCite app allows you to scan barcodes on the back of books, and site them using a variety of formats, including MLA & APA. Amazing!