1. A computer program product for monitoring activities of a person quoting information verbatim in an electronic document file being authored the computer program product comprising: one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices; program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to receive a user-selected first insertion point or replacement area for placement of verbatim quoted information within a first user interface to a destination electronic document file; program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to, subsequent to receiving the first insertion point or replacement area, provide a source user interface to a user-selected source electronic document file upon user command; program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to, subsequent to providing the source user interface, receive a user selection of text content to be transferred from the source user interface to the first insertion point or replacement area; program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to subsequent to receiving the user selection of content, automatically copy the text content to a transfer buffer without requiring a user to return to the first user interface; program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to record one or more source reference data items corresponding to the selected text content simultaneously with or subsequent to automatic copying the text content to the transfer buffer without requiring the user to return to the first user interface; program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to produce in the destination electronic document file a footnote, endnote, or bibliographical entry comprising the one or more source reference data items; and program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to automatically generate in background execution a human-readable monitor report containing the one or more source reference data items and an identity indicator of the user, wherein the background execution prevents knowledge by the user of the monitor report.