I believe that the information your organizational system should document is D. all of these - bibliographic information for all sources used, research information in its various forms, author, title of the piece, and publisher.
All of these are very important details that need to be documented so as to avoid plagiarism.
This is what the passive version of this sentence would look like:
The statue of David was sculpted by the famous artist and sculptor Michelangelo in Italy in the early 1500s.
In English, usually the word that is placed in the beginning of a sentence is the most prominent one, and the most important one as well. It is where the emphasis of the sentence is. Having this in mind, the best reason for the writer to revise this sentence to be in the passive voice is to emphasize <u>the statue.</u>