Perma.cc is now required by the new Bluebook 22nd edition, so let’s get you set up! Did you know that the BYU Law Library has an organization subscription on Perma.cc and can sponsor you an account for free? We can do this for BYU Law professors and law students, and BYU Law Review editors can use their law student accounts to make Perma.cc links for their authors, if need be.
What is a perma.cc link?
Perma.cc links are free to make and allow you to save a snapshot of how a webpage looks at the time you cite it in your article. Then, if the website link
Why use a perma.cc link?
A Perma.cc link will never rot or go bad and will allow readers of your article to see the webpage with the same information you saw when you cited it. If the website changes the text or if the URL changes, the reader can still see the webpage exactly as the author saw it when they cited it. If you need more convincing than that, according to the new Bluebook 22nd edition Rule 18.2.1(d), archiving internet sources is now required, and Perma.cc is the main example you can use.
How do you create a Perma.cc link?
Email Annalee Hickman Pierson at HickmanA@law.byu.edu to get your free account set up on perma.cc through the BYU Law Library’s organization subscription.
How do you cite a perma.cc link in your article?
Bluebook Rule 18.2.1(d) shows how to include a Perma.cc link in a citation. Here is one example: Rebecca J. Rose, The Law as Justice Gorsuch Sees It, Atlantic (Aug. 5, 2024), https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/interview-justice-neil-gorsuch-over-ruled/679342/ [https://perma.cc/PT32-56LR].