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:
Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 12 for adaptive and green computing (Kumar, Stecher, Suleski, Sanderford, Sharma, and Tamura 2024).
(2) When including a MEGA citation in the Literature Cited/Bibliography section, you may use the following:
Sudhir Kumar, Glen Stecher, Mike Suleski, Max Sanderford, Sudip Sharma, and Koichiro Tamura (2024) Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 12 for adaptive and green computing. Molecular Biology and Evolution 41: 1-9
(Publication PDF available at https://www.megasoftware.net/citations)