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 Basically: run `xb format` before you add a commit and you won't have a problem.
 
+## Referencing Sources
+
+In code interacting with guest interfaces or protocols, where applicable, please
+leave comments describing how the information included in it was obtained. For
+code based on analysis of the response of the original Xbox 360 hardware or
+software, please provide reproduction information, such as an outline of the
+algorithm executed, arguments and results of function calls or processor
+instructions involved, GPU or XMA commands and state register changes. Having
+traceable sources helps solve multiple issues:
+
+* The legality of the submitted code can be verified easily.
+* Additional analysis based on reproduction steps from prior research can be
+  done to discover more details or to research the behavior of other related
+  features.
+* The accuracy and completeness of the information can be evaluated. Knowing
+  whether something is ground truth about the console's behavior or an
+  approximation (for example, based on similar functionality in Windows, the
+  Qualcomm Adreno 200 GPU, AMD's desktop GPU architectures; the Direct3D 11.3
+  functional specification, which may be used as a generic fallback when no
+  information specific to the Xenos or Direct3D 9 is available) may help avoid
+  redoing work that has already been done if the findings are accurate, or
+  making potentially wrong conclusions about related functionality if there's no
+  certainty about the correctness of the information. In addition, it's useful
+  to describe how complete the implementation of a feature is — such as edge
+  cases checked and covered. If you are unsure if your code accurately reflects
+  the behavior of the console, or you have deliberately made deviations due to
+  the lack of prerequisites for an accurate implementation or for performance
+  reasons (in case of the latter, it's recommended to provide both options,
+  selectable with a configuration variable), or you just want more research to
+  be done in the future, please leave a TODO comment in the format provided in
+  [style_guide.md](../docs/style_guide.md).
+
+If you have verified your code by checking the correctness of the behavior of a
+game, **do not** refer to it by its title trademark. To avoid unnecessary
+dependencies on third parties, instead, use the hexadecimal title ID number
+displayed in the title bar beside the name of the game.
+
+Do not leave any hard-coded references to specific games, even in title ID form,
+in any part of the user interface, including the configuration file. If you want
+to provide an example of a game where changing a configuration variable may have
+a noticeable effect, use a code comment near the declaration of the variable
+rather than its description string. Any game identifiers referenced in the user
+interface must be obtained only from information provided by the user such as
+game data files.
+
+Also, do not put any conditionals based on hard-coded identifiers of games — the
+task of the project is researching the Xbox 360 console itself and documenting
+its behavior by creating open implementations of its interfaces. Game-specific
+hacks provide no help in achieving that, instead only complicating research by
+introducing incorrect state and hiding the symptoms of actual issues. While
+temporary workarounds, though discouraged, may be added in cases when progress
+would be blocked otherwise in other areas, they must be expressed and reasoned
+in terms of the common interface rather than logic internal to a specific game.
+
 ## Clean Git History
 
 Tools such as `git bisect` are used on the repository regularly to check for and