The phrase "a common format to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a widely accepted or standard way of presenting information or data.
Example: "We decided to use a common format to ensure that all team members could easily understand the report."
Alternatives: "a standard format for" or "a typical format to".
It was a common format to draw together prominent men, particularly in a time of war, when groups of generals and politicians were often seen in contemporary illustrated newspapers and journals.
For now, downloading makes sense for customers who want to buy a single song; putting an entire lesson book like, say, Alfred's "Basic All-in-One" into a common format to turn it into a viewable, downloadable file would be cost-prohibitive, Mr. Rocks said.
The aim was to provide a common format to share, compare and describe methodologies specific to nanomaterials.
There is a common format to these.
The steps that used to convert the heterogeneous water quality datasets into a common format to eventually import into LAGOS.
The range of, sometimes very large, data sets in a wide variety of formats and locations presents researchers with a significant task of assembling data into a common format to enable integrative analysis.
A common format needs to be flexible enough to allow integration of annotations from each of these tools and allowing extension of the text mining infrastructure.
We converted them to one common format to promote their reuse.
Time series of fault input data and simulation results are presented in a common format, so to allow using the same statistical tools as used in power system monitoring and field data reporting.
It is necessary to translate the logs from different types of source to a common format if we want to use them as a source for event correlation.
You want to match on a number of factors, but if you don't have a common format for how to handle simple things like names and addresses, it becomes very complicated to match people.
