TRB Circular Suggestion Form

Standing committees and coordinating councils must submit a proposal before they can submit circulars for publication by TRB; committees should wait for approval before investing a lot of time in the proposed circular. Subcommittees will submit proposals through their parent standing committee. Proposals will be considered on a rolling basis. (Rapporteur-authored summaries of conferences and workshops are considered through a separate process.)

Types of circulars that will be considered include:
- Attributed or white papers
- Synthesis with chapters are attributed to an individual author or authors
- Abstracts, extended abstract, and/or papers presented at a specialty conference
- Written summaries of substantive topics of discussion at a committee meeting
- State-of-the-practice reports
- Documents that detail potential research needs
- Glossary of terminology in a field
- Circulars that are updates to previously published circulars should ideally have at least one-third new content and include corresponding updated references.

Types of circulars that will not be considered include:
- Those based on an event that took place over a year ago, meaning the circular must be submitted to TRB for publication less than a year after the event took place.
- Those based on any workshops or sessions at the TRB Annual Meeting. PowerPoint presentations (along with speaker notes) and papers should instead be uploaded to the TRB Annual Meeting website. 

E-circulars cannot advocate for a particular policy or partisan position.

All proposals will be considered on an individual basis and TRB reserves the right to reject a proposal even if it falls in the category of types that will be considered. For any questions, please contact the TRB staff officer for your committee or Karen Febey, TRB Senior Report Review Officer at kfebey@nas.edu.