The phrase "affects the format of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how something influences or changes the structure or arrangement of another element.
Example: "The new software update affects the format of the documents, making them easier to read."
Alternatives: "modifies the structure of" or "changes the layout of".
The findings described in this paper were derived from a wider study conducted in Thailand, examining the performance and validity of different item formats in tests of English structure and reading ability and how item format affects the measurement of language based constructs.
Although more and more people prefer texting to handwriting while communication because of its convenience and availability, different circumstances may affect our preference on the format of messages and contents.
The aforementioned features cannot be efficiently extracted directly from the reflectance image associated with a scanned model, since its intrinsic spherical format strongly affects the quality of their descriptors, which are not designed to be robust w.r.t.
Importantly, the vaccine format not only affects the immunogenicity of the vaccine antigen, it also affects the safety of the vaccine in preclinical models [ 26].
Much of Mangen's research focusses on how the format of reading material may affect not just eye movement or reading strategy but broader processing abilities.
NICHOLSON BAKER: I can't imagine that the format of publication won't affect the way things flow to some degree.
These findings suggest that the format of examples does not affect learning outcomes for this task; future research should investigate whether this would generalize to other problem-solving tasks.
Overlooking this affects the eventual outcome of events, because broadcast formats affect public opinion and elections.
In addition, the contents, not the format, of the spoken text might affect students' test performance.
