The phrase "a certain format and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when specifying a particular format along with additional criteria or requirements.
Example: "The report must be submitted in a certain format and include all relevant data."
Alternatives: "a specific format and" or "a particular format and".
In California, all that is necessary for a recall election is a petition that follows a certain format and has enough signatures.
Then it organizes the data in a certain format and then sends the frame to the data bus of the all-in-one device.
TV and movie scripts have a certain format and style to them, and new writers may not know how to get started.
All articles must be written in a certain format and the Writer's Guide gives full details.
"Images have to be a certain size and a certain format," she said.
Perl scripts are also available to convert a source of data in a certain format into an OBO-formatted file.
Use, by a large number of logistics service providers and users, of a certain format of contract with clearly defined KPI's, may come up with an idea to develop a standard to ensure quality, for the industry in general or for a particular field.
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".
Be clear about how you like your papers to be written and make sure they follow a certain format.
Those data are repeatedly stored in different locations and a considerable time is needed to convert data stored in a certain format into another format that can be input in larger databases, and combining data from different experiments for a joint analysis is difficult.
When all these things align against a certain format or category, it's hard to recover".
