To cite gdalcubes in publications use:

Appel M, Pebesma E (2019). “On-Demand Processing of Data Cubes from Satellite Image Collections with the gdalcubes Library.” Data, 4(3). https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/4/3/92.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {On-Demand Processing of Data Cubes from Satellite Image
      Collections with the gdalcubes Library},
    author = {Marius Appel and Edzer Pebesma},
    year = {2019},
    journal = {Data},
    volume = {4},
    number = {3},
    url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/4/3/92},
    article-number = {92},
  }