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:
MEGA11: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 11 (Tamura, Stecher, and Kumar 2021).
(2) When including a MEGA citation in the Literature Cited/Bibliography section, you may use the following:
Koichiro Tamura, Glen Stecher, and Sudhir Kumar (2021) MEGA11: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 11. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38:3022-3027
(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 37:1237-1239
(Publication PDF available at https://www.megasoftware.net/citations)