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:
MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 7.0 for bigger datasets (Kumar, Stecher, and Tamura 2015).
(2) When including a MEGA citation in the Literature Cited/Bibliography section, you may use the following:
Sudhir Kumar, Glen Stecher, and Koichiro Tamura (2015) MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 7.0. Molecular Biology and Evolution (submitted).
(Publication PDF at http://www.kumarlab.net/publications)