The recommended citations for MOLCAS are:

General citations:

Applications F. Aquilante, J. Autschbach, A. Baiardi,. S. Battaglia, V. A. Borin, L. F. Chibotaru, I. Conti,. L. De Vico, M. Delcey, I. Fdez. Galván, N. Ferré, L. Freitag,. M. Garavelli, X. Gong, S. Knecht, E. D. Larsson, R. Lindh,. M. Lundberg, P. Å. Malmqvist, A. Nenov, J. Norell,. M. Odelius, M. Olivucci, T. B. Pedersen, L. Pedraza-González,. Q. M. Phung, K. Pierloot, M. Reiher, I. Schapiro,. J. Segarra-Martí, F. Segatta, L. Seijo, S. Sen,. D.-C. Sergentu, C. J. Stein, L. Ungur, M. Vacher,. A. Valentini, V. Veryazov: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 152, 214117, (2020).DOI: 10.1063/5.0004835
Molcas 8.0: F. Aquilante, J. Autschbach, R. K. Carlson, L. F. Chibotaru, M. G. Delcey, L. De Vico, I. Fdez. Galván, N. Ferré, L. M. Frutos, L. Gagliardi, M. Garavelli, A. Giussani, C. E. Hoyer, G. Li Manni, H. Lischka, D. Ma, P. Å. Malmqvist, T. Müller, A. Nenov, M. Olivucci, T. B. Pedersen, D. Peng, F. Plasser, B. Pritchard, M. Reiher, I. Rivalta, I. Schapiro, J. Segarra‐Martí, M. Stenrup, D. G. Truhlar, L. Ungur, A. Valentini, S. Vancoillie, V. Veryazov, V. P. Vysotskiy, O. Weingart, F. Zapata, R. Lindh, MOLCAS 8: New Capabilities for Multiconfigurational Quantum Chemical Calculations across the Periodic Table Journal of Computational Chemistry, 37, 506-541, (2016). 10.1002/jcc.24221

Molcas 7.4: F. Aquilante, L. De Vico, N. Ferré, G. Ghigo, P.-Å. Malmqvist, P. Neogrády, T.B. Pedersen, M. Pitonak, M. Reiher, B.O. Roos, L. Serrano-Andrés, M. Urban, V. Veryazov, R. Lindh, MOLCAS 7: the next generation, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 31, 224-247, (2010). 10.1002/jcc.21318

Code development: V. Veryazov, P.-O. Widmark, L. Serrano-Andres, R. Lindh, B.O. Roos, MOLCAS as a development platform for quantum chemistry software, International journal of Quantum Chemistry, 100, 626-635 (2004).10.1002/qua.20166

Molcas 6: G. Karlström, R. Lindh, P.-Å. Malmqvist, B. O. Roos, U. Ryde, V. Veryazov, P.-O. Widmark, M. Cossi, B. Schimmelpfennig, P. Neogrády, L. Seijo, MOLCAS: a program package for computational chemistry, Computational Material Science, 28, 222-239 (2003). (Proceedings of the Symposium on Software Development for Process and Materials Design (Software Development) 15-16 September 2002 • Moscow, Russia) 10.1016/S0927-0256(03)00109-5

Special features:

Selection of active space:
V. Veryazov, P.-Å. Malmqvist, B. O. Roos, How to select active space for multiconfigurational quantum chemistry? International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 111, 3329-3338 (2011).

Parallel CASPT2:
S. Vancoillie, M. Delcey, R. Lindh, V. Vysotskiy, P.-Å. Malmqvist, V. Veryazov, Parallelization of a multiconfigurational perturbation theory,Journal of computational chemistry, 34, 1937-1948 (2013).


Relativistic exact decoupling:
Exact Decoupling of the Relativistic Fock Operator, D. Peng, M. Reiher, Theor. Chem. Acc. 131 1081 (2012)
D. Peng, M. Reiher, Local Relativistic Exact Decoupling, J. Chem. Phys. 136 244108 (2012)


Molecular dynamics in Molcas:
I. Schapiro, M. N. Ryazantsev, L. M. Frutos, N. Ferré, R. Lindh, M. Olivucci, The Ultrafast Photoisomerizations of Rhodopsin and Bathorhodopsin Are Modulated by Bond Length Alternation and HOOP Driven Electronic Effects, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133 3354-3364, (2011)


Orbital-free density embedding:
F. Aquilante and T. A. Wesolowski, Self-consistency in Frozen-Density Embedding Theory based calculations, J. Chem. Phys. 135 (2011) 084120


New gradient codes:
J. Boström, F. Aquilante, T. B. Pedersen and R. Lindh, Analytical gradients of Hartree-Fock exchange with density fitting approximations, J. Chem. Theory Comp. 9 (2013) 204212
J. Boström, V. Veryazov, F. Aquilante, T. B. Pedersen and R. Lindh, Analytical gradients of the second-order Moller-Plesset energy using Cholesky decompositions, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 114 321-327 (2014)
L. Freitag, M. Delcey, F. Aquilante, T. B. Pedersen, R. Lindh and L. Gonzalez, Analytical gradients of complete active space self-consistent field energies using Cholesky decomposition: Geometry optimization and spin-state energetics of a ruthenium nitrosyl complex, J. Chem. Phys. 140 (2014) 174103


FNO-CASPT2:
F. Aquilante, T. Todorova, T. B. Pedersen, L. Gagliardi and B. O. Roos, Systematic truncation of the virtual space in multiconfigurational perturbation theory, J. Chem. Phys. 131 (2009) 34113


SplitCAS method:
G. Li Manni, F. Aquilante and L. Gagliardi, Strong Correlation Treated Via Effective Hamiltonians and Perturbation Theory, J. Chem. Phys., 134, 034114, (2011)


GASSCF:
D. Ma, G. Li Manni and L. Gagliardi, The Generalized Active Space Concept in Multiconfigurational Self-Consistent Field Methods, J. Chem. Phys., 135, 044128, 2011


Constrained optimization using Z-matrix formalism:
V. P. Vysotskiy, J. Boström, V. Veryazov, A new module for constrained multi-fragment geometry optimization in internal coordinates implemented in the MOLCAS package, J. Comp. Chem. 34, 2657-2665 (2013)


Fragment method:
T. Tsuchiya, K. Shrestha, E. Jakubikova, Orbital Analysis and Excited-State Calculations in an Energy-Based Fragmentation Method, JCTC, 2013, 9, 3350-3363 (2013)