diff --git a/doc/classes/Array.xml b/doc/classes/Array.xml
index 3b3239e9d8b..ed445896dc2 100644
--- a/doc/classes/Array.xml
+++ b/doc/classes/Array.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 		var array2 = [3, "Four"]
 		print(array1 + array2) # ["One", 2, 3, "Four"]
 		[/codeblock]
-		Arrays are always passed by reference.
+		[b]Note:[/b] Arrays are always passed by reference. To get a copy of an array which can be modified independently of the original array, use [method duplicate].
 	</description>
 	<tutorials>
 	</tutorials>
diff --git a/doc/classes/Dictionary.xml b/doc/classes/Dictionary.xml
index 2e139435a76..d6497be7931 100644
--- a/doc/classes/Dictionary.xml
+++ b/doc/classes/Dictionary.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 		Dictionary type. Associative container which contains values referenced by unique keys. Dictionaries are composed of pairs of keys (which must be unique) and values. Dictionaries will preserve the insertion order when adding elements, even though this may not be reflected when printing the dictionary. In other programming languages, this data structure is sometimes referred to as an hash map or associative array.
 		You can define a dictionary by placing a comma-separated list of [code]key: value[/code] pairs in curly braces [code]{}[/code].
 		Erasing elements while iterating over them [b]is not supported[/b] and will result in undefined behavior.
+		[b]Note:[/b] Dictionaries are always passed by reference. To get a copy of a dictionary which can be modified independently of the original dictionary, use [method duplicate].
 		Creating a dictionary:
 		[codeblock]
 		var my_dir = {} # Creates an empty dictionary.