If you wish to cite MEGA in your publications, we suggest the following:
(1) When referring to MEGA in the main text of your publication, you may choose a format such as:
MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across computing platforms (Kumar, Stecher, Li, Knyaz, and Tamura 2018).
(2) When including a MEGA citation in the Literature Cited/Bibliography section, you may use the following:
Sudhir Kumar, Glen Stecher, Michael Li, Christina Knyaz, and Koichiro Tamura (2018) MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across computing platforms. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35:1547-1549
(3) If you are using the macOS version of MEGA X please include the following:
Glen Stecher, Koichiro Tamura, and Sudhir Kumar (2020) Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) for macOS. Molecular Biology and Evolution (https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz312)
(Publication PDF available at https://www.megasoftware.net/citations)