14. The system as set forth in claim 11 wherein the source reference data item recorder is configured to record a system time, a system date, or both a system time and a system date.
11. A system for monitoring activities of a person quoting information verbatim in an electronic document file being authored comprising: a computing platform having hardware for performing a logical process; a first user-selected insertion point or replacement area received from a user of the computing platform for placement of verbatim quoted information within a first user interface of the computing platform to a destination electronic document file; a source user interface of the computing platform to a source electronic document file from which user manipulations of the source electronic document file are received; one or more computer-readable text elements selected by the user subsequent to definition of the insertion point or replacement area to be transferred from the source user interface to the first insertion point or replacement area; an automatic copier portion of the computing platform configured to copy the selected text content to a transfer buffer subsequent to selection of the text content, the copier copying the elements without requiring the user to return to the first user interface; a source reference data item recorder portion computing platform configured to, responsive to the copying by the automatic copier, record one or more source reference data items corresponding to the selected text content; a reference note generator portion of the computing platform configured to produce in the destination electronic document file a footnote, endnote, or bibliographical entry comprising the one or more source reference data items; and a monitor report generator portion of the computing platform configured to automatically generate in background execution a human-readable monitor report containing the one or more source reference data items and an indicator of an identity of the user, wherein the background execution prevents knowledge by the user of the monitor report.