To ensure that a link will take your readers to the cited source for years to come, we recommend adding archived links.
After five years, link rot increases to 50 percent. File not found.” In fact, after a year, more than 20 percent of links have “link rot,” which means that the linked webpage is no longer available.
Indeed, we’ve all experienced clicking on a link only to see “Error 404. But don’t grab any old Bluebook-get the 20th edition, which provides online source citations in Rule 18.2.Īlso, you must remember that online content-especially webpages-can change or vanish at any moment. We can and must do better.įortunately, The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Columbia Law Review Ass’n et al.
Along with the influx of online citations, however, has come a myriad of varying citation formats, including the humble “ available at” citation to a webpage’s address (URL). Understandably, we are also citing online sources (besides Westlaw or Lexis) more often in our briefs. Today, most of us rely more heavily upon online, rather than hard-copy, information sources.
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