Washington State
Transportation Center (TRAC)
TRAC-UW
1107 NE 45th St
Seattle, WA
Phone: 206.543.8690
Fax: 206.685.0767
TRAC-WSU
Sloan Hall, Room 101
PO Box 642910
Pullman, WA 99164-2910
Phone: 509.335.3175
Fax: 509.335.7632
WSDOT Research Office
Transportation Building
Washington State
Department
of Transportation
310 Maple Park Avenue SE
PO Box 47300
Olympia WA 98504-7300
Phone: 360.705.7000
TRAC-UW
Information for Project Investigators
Producing a Report with TRAC
A Guide for Principal Investigators and Project Managers
Basic production process
Contents
Graphics
Support staff
Tables
Text
Types of reports
Word processing
Text
Organization
Most TRAC reports are WSDOT Research Reports. They must be organized as follows (see the WSDOT Research Report Guidelines for more detail):
Research Report
• Executive Summary
• Introduction or Background
• Review of Previous Work
• Research Approach/Procedures
• Findings/Discussion
• Conclusions
• Recommendations
• Application/Implementation
• Acknowledgment
• References
• Appendices
• Technical Report
• Executive Summary
• Introduction and Research Approach
• Findings
• Conclusions
• Recommendations/Implementation
• Acknowledgment
• References
• Appendices
• References
Style Guides
The office relies on Words Into Type and the Chicago Manual of Style.
References
Use an alphabetical reference list at the end of your report to indicate only documents cited in the text. Denote references at the appropriate place in the text by the author's name and publication date in parentheses. Example: (Reed 1993)
Bibliographies may be used in addition to a reference list to document sources you have consulted but not directly cited. A bibliography should be alphabetical by author's name.
If you have many references, consider using a bibliographic software package such as ISI Researchsoft's ProCite or Reference Manager. Ask Ron Porter if you need help.
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