The phrase "a certain format" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific type or style of formatting that is not explicitly defined.
Example: "Please submit your report in a certain format that adheres to our guidelines."
Alternatives: "a specific format" or "a particular format".
Perl scripts are also available to convert a source of data in a certain format into an OBO-formatted file.
When all these things align against a certain format or category, it's hard to recover".
"Images have to be a certain size and a certain format," she said.
In California, all that is necessary for a recall election is a petition that follows a certain format and has enough signatures.
To program the machine to do a particular task (such as read a deck of cards, print each card in a certain format, add up the numbers in columns 40-48, and print the total), jumper wires of various lengths and colors were inserted to connect pairs of holes, such as card columns to printer columns, card columns to accumulators, and (always) "CI to C".
Users have also grown to expect a certain format to their online searches.
In clinical work focused on individual patients, the EHR system often either accesses data as big chunks – documents – in a certain serialization format (for example openEHR COMPOSITIONs in XML format) or as result lists from queries.
A student might find a certain representational format (e.g., diagram, text) more attractive than other formats for learning.
For example, an application may require a certain data format or standard to be presented.
All the selected SAGE libraries are put into a pool for editing (deleting and clearing) and this file is then saved in a certain file format for further analysis by the matrix data creator module.
Many Cytoscape plugins only provide simple functionalities such as the import of a certain file format, whereas others focus on very special applications which are not in the scope of the majority of potential users.
